Countering Dr. Profit

Dr. Brian Day – also known as “Dr. Profit” – used his term as president of the Canadian Medical Association to promote health care privatization. This isn't surprising coming from the person who told the Romanow Commission to "repeal the CHA", "introduce privatization and contracting out" and "accept economic reality and accept user fees."

Most recently he has been lobbying provincial governments and media outlets with a plan that would change how health care services are delivered. "Patient-focused funding" would see public hospitals compete with private clinics - like Dr. Day's own Cambie Surgery Centre - for patients. What Dr. Day isn't saying is that this funding system has been tried in Britain with disasterous results. Costs soared and British doctors have spoken out against the funding model.

Dr. Day is part owner and medical director of Canada’s largest for-profit health care clinic, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has been an active promoter of privatized, for-profit health care, saying “consumers” who can afford to pay should be able to buy their way to the front of the line.

Dr. PROFIT® is not the cure for Canadian health care.

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