I would guess they did read the story and they are commenting on the underlying issue not the symptom. The symptom is that people are willing to pay for private care which allows doctors to double-bill, the issue is that there is a lack of resources made available in our public system (which causes two year waiting lists which could be a death sentence).

If you only address the symptom, so you somehow stop the use of private care in Canada the issue still exists. So people either live in a bubble and stay on the list with many dying or they are free to move and just buy the care in another country (possibly at a higher fee and definitely more when you factor in travel and stay). Rather than try to address the symptom, fix the system causing it.

George and Athelene I would argue are correctly identifying the issue, emwatcher stopped short of critical thinking.