BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at raymond@barrietoday.com or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a story titled 'Ontarians shouldn't pay out of pocket for surgeries at private clinics: ministry,' published June 27.
Once again, semantics from our provincial government blurs the lines.
The legislation continues to absolutely benefit the most affluent.
My 90-year-old mother is waiting for cataract surgery. A phone call to a private clinic reveals she will have a much shorter wait time (weeks) if she pays herself, than if she has it covered by OHIP (months).
Karen Dack
Burlington
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