Ian Mulgrew: What the Dickens is going on with medicare?

Consider the health care experience of Marshal Van de Kamp, a former Metro Vancouver welder who injured one knee on a job insured by workers’ compensation and then the other playing football covered only by medicare.
It is the tale of two systems — it was the best of care, it was the worst of care, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness …
His story was put forward in B.C. Supreme Court as an illustration of the arbitrary and inequitable nature of health care p