{"id":848,"date":"2007-10-19T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=848"},"modified":"2007-10-19T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T11:40:00","slug":"the-mcgill-daily-hyde-park-when-universal-healthcare-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"The McGill Daily &#8211; Hyde Park: When universal healthcare isn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgilldaily.com\/view.php?aid=6500\">The McGill Daily<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But as any medical professional will tell you, this vaunted Canadian universalism is gradually being attenuated. As I recently discovered, universal in Ontario does not always translate to universal in Quebec. Specialized doctors are increasingly compelling their out-of-province patients \u2013 a group that includes many university students \u2013 to pay out-of-pocket for medical services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Specialists are adopting this practice because it relieves them of the cost of processing out-of-province claims and protects them from the occasional loss should a patient turn out to lack provincial health coverage. While out-of-province patients are still entitled to reimbursement from their home provinces, they must seek recovery on their own, a process that can take many weeks. If an out-of-province patient fails to pay, however, the specialist may refuse treatment, a course of action that carries no disciplinary consequences. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p><em>Another caveat. Makes state by state action less appealing. Medicare-for-all looks better as Medicare causes no trouble when traveling to say, Florida for part of the year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McGill Daily: &#8220;But as any medical professional will tell you, this vaunted Canadian universalism is gradually being attenuated. As I recently discovered, universal in Ontario does not always translate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The McGill Daily &#8211; Hyde Park: When universal healthcare isn\u2019t&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-single-payer-health-care"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}