Drift to private clinics noticed at MUHC
Aaron Derfel is doing a two-parter in the Gazette this week about the growing toleration of private clinics in an MUHC-owned building.
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jeather 11:26 on 2019-05-27 Permalink
I am not pro-private clinics but these are doctors who bill medicare (not patients directly) and give you the option to have blood tests done in a for-pay private clinic in the same building or on medicare in the hospital, which doesn’t feel like the end of medicare as we know it.
Su 08:41 on 2019-05-28 Permalink
More details in today’s paper !https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/how-the-muhc-gambled-and-lost-millions-on-a-real-estate-sinkhole
jeather 09:15 on 2019-05-28 Permalink
Aha, here’s the relevant issue:
SMD 12:09 on 2019-05-28 Permalink
Yup. Also:
jeather 12:54 on 2019-05-28 Permalink
I guess but aren’t most people’s doctors lacking a dedicated ombudsperson? I’ve never looked into the complaints process.
Uatu 16:21 on 2019-05-28 Permalink
Also note the sneaky, weaslly way they opened those clinics, especially the children’s one where parents were unaware that it was private and were charged for stuff that should’ve been free. I don’t know why there’s a new hospital when everything is moving into a new building. The MUHC management are a bunch of corrupt weasels who’ll violate the Canadian health act just to bail themselves out of their inept financial mismanagement. And we all pay for it in the end.