Dear Editor:
Re: Health Care Court Case Could Impact Wait-Lists, Keith Baldrey’s Sept. 7 column.
Does anyone seriously think that Dr. Brian Day is suing the B.C. government for altruistic reasons? His suit has nothing to do with shortening the “wait-list” but everything to do with his getting richer.
Doctors of orthopedic surgery may be tempted to move to Day’s clinic for higher salaries than the government is paying, in which case, public health care wait-lists will get even longer. The wealthy are quite able to choose private clinics without Day’s government attack. And the government could easily discount this attack by restoring health care money levels to shorten wait-lists.
Florence L. Nicholson
North Vancouver
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