Toronto Star
Fri Apr 25 2014
Page: A4
Section: News
Byline: Theresa Boyle Toronto Star
The Toronto doctor who recently grabbed headlines across North America for defending Canada’s health system before an ornery U.S. Senate wants Ontarians to take notice of a legal showdown on the other side of this country that she warns could affect the future of Medicare nationwide.
Dr. Danielle Martin, a founder of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, is sounding the alarm over a B.C. Supreme Court case centred on the question of whether private clinics have the right to extra-bill patients for medical services.
“In my view (it’s) the biggest threat to medicare in this generation, and we need to do everything we can to protect our health system from the damage that its outcome could set in motion,” she plans to tell an audience on Friday in a speech, an advance copy of which was given exclusively to the Star.
The case in question involves former Canadian Medical Association president Dr. Brian Day, who has
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