Poll: private health care
Castanet - Nov 25, 2018 / 7:49 am | Story: 242851
Photo: CTV
Private clinics embroiled in a legal battle against the B.C. government have scored a victory after a judge ordered an injunction against provisions in the law banning private-pay medically necessary health services.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Janet Winteringham says in a written ruling released Friday that the government cannot enforce the provisions until their constitutionality is determined at trial.
She says the plaintiffs have established that there are serious questions to be tried, including that some patients will suffer serious physical or psychological harm while waiting for public health services.
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