Doctor’s appeal over right to pay for private health care dismissed by B.C. court

B.C.’s highest court has dismissed an appeal of a landmark decision upholding the province’s public health care laws.

A panel of three justices at the B.C. Court of Appeal on Friday rejected Dr. Brian Day’s argument that a lower court judge had made critical errors of fact in denying his constitutional challenge to legislation that prevents patients from accessing private care when wait times in the public system are too long.

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