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is time to luanch a NAFTA claim to protect our health-care from greedy American profit-mongers. We cannot accept that Michigan-based doctors will clear up the Windsor area backlog by offering up to 50-60% discounts on procedures. (Hat-tip NealeNews
Two Michigan surgeons are offering discounted rates to Ontario residents facing lengthy wait times for spine or brain surgeries, portraying themselves as an "alternative" to what they say is an underfunded, inefficient Canadian health care system that poorly serves some patients.
Dr. Teck Soo, a Canadian neurosurgeon now practising in suburban Detroit, and his partner, American orthopedic surgeon Dr. Peter Bono, say they will cut their normal surgical rates by 50 to 60 per cent for needy Canadians, and arrange payment plans for operations guaranteed within two weeks.
They also said they would operate free of charge if someone cannot pay and desperately needs the procedure.
Patients would be required to stay in Providence Hospital in Southfield, where Soo is chief of neurosurgery.
The two partners say the hospital -- anxious for more business -- also has agreed in principle to cut its rates by 50 to 60 per cent for Canadian patients they bring in.
This assault on Canadian values must stop immediately.
