The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday that the Quebec government cannot prevent people from paying for private insurance for health-care procedures covered under medicare.

As a result of delays in receiving tests and surgeries, patients have suffered and even died in some cases, justices Beverley McLachlin, Jack Major, Michel Bastarache and Marie Deschamps found for the majority.

日本では内出血している患者を救急病院から家に帰すことはない、カナダは帰してスペシャリストにかかれという。アポイントメントを取るだけで１週間かかる。