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Private health company seeking 'sponsors' for lawsuit over two-tier care - Yahoo! Canada News: "Private health company seeking 'sponsors' for lawsuit over two-tier care
Wed Nov 15, 5:09 PM


By Chinta Puxley
PUBLICITÉ

TORONTO (CP) - A company that refers patients to private health-care clinics in Canada and the U.S. is trying to raise money from private hospitals to 'sponsor' a threatened lawsuit against the Ontario government that it hopes could open the door to two-tier health care in Canada.
Richard Baker, president of the Vancouver-based Timely Medical Alternatives Inc., said his company wants to sue the province on behalf of a 66-year-old Ontario man who went to Buffalo, N.Y., for an MRI and surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumour.
But Baker said he doesn't have the $25,000 needed to file the suit, so he's publicizing the case in the hopes of raising the cash from private health-care providers who want to see an expansion of two-tier care.
'People who are proposing to operate a private hospital in Ontario and have been shut down because of the Canada Health Act, they may well wish to sponsor this lawsuit,' Baker said.
The suit would 'smooth the way for them to introduce private medical care into Ontario,' he added. "