{"id":311,"date":"2018-11-07T21:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/?p=311"},"modified":"2020-08-18T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T21:28:08","slug":"its-wrong-to-deny-suffering-patients-access-to-treatment-when-current-system-is-failing-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/its-wrong-to-deny-suffering-patients-access-to-treatment-when-current-system-is-failing-them\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s wrong to deny suffering patients access to treatment when current system is failing them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our historic Charter challenge for patients&#8217; rights continues to make news. Check out some recent articles that describe the fundamental rights at stake:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/dr-derryck-smith-b-c-government-unethical-to-deny-patients-the-right-to-buy-private-care-when-public-system-fails-to-address-their-suffering?fbclid=IwAR0ahecSleF4cn2Iu6AznRxpH_VYz-7Jq18zMUU5axvUaUYfs2geuIcEkgU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;B.C. government unethical to deny patients the right to buy private care when public system fails to address their suffering&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Derryck Smith in the Vancouver Sun<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/conrad-black-the-future-of-our-health-care-is-being-decided-in-the-courts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The future of our health care is being decided in the courts&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Conrad Black in the National Post<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our historic Charter challenge for patients&#8217; rights continues to make news. Check out some recent articles that describe the fundamental rights at stake: &#8220;B.C. government unethical to deny patients the right to buy private care when public system fails to address their suffering&#8221;\u00a0by Dr. Derryck Smith in the Vancouver Sun &#8220;The future of our health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}