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Supreme Court declines to hear BC doctors’ fight to let patients pick private health care

Dr. Brian Day, Medical Director of the Cambie Surgery Centre, in his Vancouver office. Dr. Day launched legal action in 2009, challenging medicare laws that prohibit patients from paying for faster access to medically necessary care.DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press A British Columbia-based physician who has spent more than a decade challenging medicare laws that prohibit patients from paying for faster access to medically necessary care has lost his fight, after the Supreme Court of Canada declined his last chance at appeal. Thursday’s decision upholds those laws and closes the door on a 14-year legal battle that pitted patient autonomy against…
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Ford’s health-care risk cuts the lives of society’s most vulnerable

A 6-year-old child ends up in the emergency room with meningitis, following days of concern by her parents about her fever and rash. A pregnant woman avoids seeing a health provider until she goes into labour, all the while worrying that she is risking her life and that of her baby. A young man falls off a roof while doing repairs, but bears the pain and waits to seek care until his injured leg becomes infected. You may be surprised to hear such things could happen in Ontario, in a country that prides itself on its universal health-care system. But…
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Ontario extended medical care coverage to uninsured patients during a pandemic, but that’s ending

Rose Celeste of Toronto says she spent years avoiding a visit to the doctor. As an undocumented migrant worker from the Philippines, she fears something as simple as a checkup could lead to a run-in with the law and jeopardize her life in Canada. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit three years ago, that changed. The province directed hospitals to temporarily provide medically necessary care to patients without coverage while reimbursing them for the expense — something that led Celeste, 61, to discover and then treat her thyroid cancer. Without the program, she estimates she’d be thousands of dollars in…
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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.…
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Help Revise the National PE Standards – PHE America

School districts across the country rely on SHAPE America’s National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education in order to develop their own standards, frameworks and curricula. As part of the ongoing standards revision process, SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards Task Force has tirelessly gathered research and best practices from education experts around the world, and has collected feedback from the HPE community. Based on the feedback from the first round of Public Review and Comment, SHAPE America, and the National Physical Education Standards Task Force have developed proposed Student Attributes and Draft Standards, which are now available…
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Should You Invest in the Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH)?

If you’re interested in broad exposure to the Healthcare – Broad segment of the equity market, look no further than the Invesco S&P SmallCap Health Care ETF (PSCH), a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on 04/07/2010. An increasingly popular option among retail and institutional investors, passively managed ETFs offer low costs, transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency; they are also excellent vehicles for long term investors. Investor-friendly, sector ETFs provide many options to gain low risk and diversify exposure to a broad group of companies in particular sectors. Healthcare – Broad is one of the 16 broad Zacks sectors within…