Supreme Court of Canada upholds BC Supreme Court's landmark decision protecting public health care
BCs’ Act at the centre of this case aims to preserve a publicly-funded health care system where access to necessary medical care is based on patients’ needs and not their ability to pay.
- BCs’ Act at the centre of this case aims to preserve a publicly-funded health care system where access to necessary medical care is based on patients’ needs and not their ability to pay.
- “As a group of patients, doctors and health care advocates, we joined this court case more than a decade ago because we believe in defending a public health care system premised on the understanding that care should be based on need, not the ability to pay,” said Tuesday Andrich, co-chair of the BC Health Coalition.
- In denying CSC’s application to appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada upholds two previous decisions made by the BC Supreme Court on September 10, 2020 and the BC Court of Appeal on July 15, 2022 which both found that the evidence before the court showed that a duplicative private-pay health care system would increase wait times in the publicly-funded system and cause harm to all who depend on it.
- Although this legal attack on our publicly-funded health care system has finally come to an end, the work to strengthen and improve our health care system is far from over.