How would you like to buy a family doctor for $3,500?A grim moment for statist health care.Capitalism is really the longest road from socialism to socialism.
More than 20,000 Londoners and 1.4 million Ontarians who lack that key first link into the health-care system might contemplate that as they head to walk-in clinics or linger in emergency departments.
By this summer, that thought could become a reality for residents of London, Toronto and Ottawa.
But there's a catch -- it won't come cheap.
Clients willing to shell out a $1,200 enrolment fee and yearly dues of $2,300 can become members of three for-profit medical clinics to open in those three cities this summer by Vancouver-based Copeman Healthcare Inc.
And founder Don Copeman said yesterday he'd like to open similar clinics across Canada in the next few years.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
For-profit medical clinics are to open in London, Toronto and Ottawa this summer
The London Free Press reports: