Bacchus Barua: We should stop demonizing private clinics—and the patients who need them

On the heels of a new threat from the B.C. government to fine doctors who accept private payment for treatment already covered by the government-run health-care system, a trial — initiated more than seven years ago by a private Vancouver clinic led by Dr. Brian Day — resumed on April 9.
Day, a former head of the Canadian Medical Association, is fighting to allow privately funded treatment for patients who the public system has failed.
Just a few days later, data from the Canadian Ins