Lunch n' Learn: It's time to end extra-billing
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We're excited to invite you to the second session of Visions & Solutions, a BC Health Coalition Lunch n' Learn series.
What: A lunchtime conversation about
extra-billing in BC health care
When:
Tuesday, April 16 from 12:00-1:00 pm PT
Where:
Online via Zoom (registration
required)
In this second session of Visions and Solutions, we’ll learn about the current state of unlawful extra-billing in BC, its impact on our health system, and what it’s going to take to end our reliance on for-profit companies that undermine our health care system.
With the cost of living at an all-time high and our health care costs also on the rise, it’s time for BC to put an end to illegal extra-billing.
But the privatization of health care services has expanded in BC over the last seven years. For-profit health care companies are on the rise and continue unlawful extra-billing practices. Recent numbers reported by Health Canada show that in 2021-22, BC saw $18 million in out of pocket charges to patients for medically necessary services that should be accessible... at no costs.
Extra-billing violates the principles of the Canada Health Act as well as the BC Medicare Protection Act. The landmark Cambie Case, which concluded in 2023, reaffirmed that extra-billing is harmful to our public health care system. It allows people who have the means to pay out of pocket to jump the queue for medically necessary procedures. It also costs taxpayers because the federal government withholds Canada Health Transfers dollar for dollar based on the amount of extra-billing.
Join Dr. Saad Ahmed, board member of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, and Health Policy Researcher Andrew Longhurst for a lunchtime conversation about what’s next in BC’s long struggle against extra-billing.
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