Medical Tourism Could Force Canada to Bring in Private Healthcare

August 29, 2014

(IMTJ) – The on-going row between medical bodies and hospitals in Canada over medical tourism is escalating. Ontario could be vulnerable to legal challenge because of medical tourism. Allowing international patients to pay for health care sets Ontario up for a challenge by Canadians who want to do the same. Doris Grinspun of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, says the practice of some hospitals accepting foreign patients for profit may lead to demands by Canadians to be allowed to pay for private medical care.