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Letter: Canadians shut out of pay-for-service medical system

Editor: Why is it that Canadians can’t get access to medical care due to a shortage of doctors and long wait lists for treatment, but foreign nationals can pay their way into immediate treatment?
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Editor: Why is it that Canadians can’t get access to medical care due to a shortage of doctors and long wait lists for treatment, but foreign nationals can pay their way into immediate treatment?

Where is my pay-for-service option as a Canadian citizen?

Yet when Saudi Arabia pulls patients out of Canadian hospitals the news report is on the loss of government revenue, not the human rights atrocity being committed to Canadians citizens every day through the denial of medical care.

Teri Brito,

Langley