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Healthcare snitch hotline
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| jester |
| quote: | As provincial governments across the country grapple with the thorny issue of for-profit medicine, Ontario has taken the unprecedented step of setting up a toll-free snitch line for people to report cases of illegal private health care — and says it has triggered 35 investigations in barely a month.
The service was prompted by evidence that doctors and clinics are routinely flouting medicare rules with sometimes creative methods of generating extra income, Deb Matthews, the province’s Health Minister, said Tuesday. |
(Courtesy of the National Post)
:haha: :haha: :haha:
The goody two-shoes province. |
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| ChemEnhanced |
The ontario government and the insurance companies are also taking a hard stance on Auto Insurance Injury Fraud.
There are several insurance companies right now suing treatment and assessment facilities in the GTA. |
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| bluntBoy |
I'm not supporting these clinics but personally I'd very much rather have "legal" private health care along our wonderful super-efficient public health care.
Even if it costs a little, I'd rather have the option than be at the mercy of the conversations/jokes taking place between the ER staff and how empty their cup of timmys is. |
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| GGM |
| Wow you can say goodbye to that call in line the second Hudak gets elected. But it does make sense to me to get rid of the current private health options. There's no regulation in place for them currently so you can bet some of them will be shady until they're deemed an official option imo. |
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