Judge wrong on private health care

Re: B.C. judge rejects private medicine, Sept. 11, and Mediocre health care for all! Editorial, Sept. 12

Two observations about this ruling from the b.c. Supreme Court and our healthcare system:

First, on the assumption that the ruling is upheld by Canada’s Supreme Court, it would seem Canadians have more of a right to assisted death than to timely medical care.

Second, PBS in the united States recently ran a series of reports looking at universal health-care systems in different countries that worked well and could be potential models for the u.s. The systems PBS studied included Australia, the u.k., and Switzerland, all of which had mixtures of public and private care. Canada’s was not one of them.

When will Canadians end their delusion that there are no alternatives to our overstressed and rickety system?

Robert Vogel, Toronto