Coverage the day before

Two News Alerts:

Medicare Future at Stake (National Post)
Medicare's Future on the line (Alaska Highway News)

Silence before the storm?

UPDATE: The Montreal Economic Institute made its presence to the media known in a press release just a few minutes ago.

Nervous

Dr. Chaoulli tells me he feels a little "nervous" two days before the Supreme Court brings down their decision. The decision could have an enormous impact on Canada's health care system--it could, for one, result in a fully legal parallel private system operating along side the public one.

At any rate, I find myself a little nervous as well, and I'm expecting my Google News alerts to fill up my Gmail tomorrow. If today is any indication, however, people will still be asleep in my country...

Background

CBC: Top court to hear private health-care challenge. (2003/05/08)
SC Press release: Case heard before Supreme Court (2004/06/08)
NY Times: A challenger to Canada's Health Care (2005/05/22)
Margaret Wente: The dangerous ideas of Dr. Jacques Chaoulli. (2004/06/08)

Bankrolled by his sympathetic in-laws, Dr. Chaoulli has taken a two-year break from medicine to fight the case. He figures he has spent $600,000 of the family's money. Why is he so passionate about this?
"Why? It is because freedom is not a gift, like an apple on the tree. You have to fight for your freedom. If you don't fight, you are not a free man."
So forget all the election noise about the extra billions that politicians are promising to throw at health care. It won't make any difference. What will is what the Supremes make of that dangerous Dr. Chaoulli.

The Chaoulli Case

Ever since I wrote an article about Dr. Jacques Chaoulli, I've been following his case with great interest.

I will use this blog for a number of purposes. For one, I will use it to update people on his trial, and, for two, to post related stories, particularly about Canadian health care.