National Post: “The problem might not be so dire if physicians were allowed by law to extra-bill a little more freely, perhaps in work hours beyond some legislated ceiling in a given week. But this would impinge upon our holy principle of “single-tier” health care. The alternative, at least for the time being, seems to involve sitting back and letting the doctors themselves tear that equal access to shreds before our eyes.”
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