A British Columbia company offering health services to patients who pay annual fees starting at $4,650 has agreed to modify its policies, averting a court challenge over public healthcare, says the province’s health minister.
Michelle Logeot refers to the biggest health scare of her life as 'the event,' the type she does not want other women to experience when doctors misdiagnose them or dismiss symptoms of a potentially deadly heart attack.
Currently in its third reading, Bill 60, would allow the appointment of directors to regulate for-profit clinics while hospitals could approve the outsourcing of specific surgeries and diagnostic procedures to these private medical facilities.
Some doctors had less than kind words about the messaging from the children's hospital—especially in the wake of the province dropping its mask mandate for healthcare settings.
The three-judge panel says a section of B.C.’s Child, Family and Community Service Act is unconstitutional, finding the legislation lacked safeguards to protect parents’ deeply personal medical information.