Canada spends $400 billion a year on healthcare, 22% more per person than the OECD average. Wait times have tripled since 1993, and buying private insurance for medically necessary care is still illegal. So why can a federal prisoner get surgery faster than YOU?
Dr. Brian Day, orthopedic surgeon, former president of the Canadian Medical Association and founder of Cambie Surgery Centre, returns to Coastal Front to sit down with Andrew Johns for a blunt conversation about rationed care, runaway bureaucracy and his 30-year fight to put patients first.
In this episode:
"Deliberately rationed": what BC's Court of Appeal said in the Cambie case
7 hospital beds per 1,000 people in 1978. Just 2.5 today
From 9 weeks to 29 weeks: how wait times tripled
Why Canada stands alone in banning private health insurance
Prisoners, federal judges and foreigners can use Cambie. British Columbians can't
The Canada Health Act's founders who quietly used private care
For every health bureaucrat in Germany, Canada has 11
64 health authority VPs, 14 ministries of health, and the $3–4 billion Dr. Day would save
David Eby nearly quadrupled ICBC fees for fast-track surgery while his office fought Cambie in court
Millions spent sending BC cancer patients to Bellingham
16 orthopedic surgeons trained, only 5 stayed in Canada
Alberta's dual-practice model and the new Enoch Cree Nation surgical facility
"If we did this in China, there would be 100 million protesters"
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