This isn't about greed versus socialism but about patient care versus bureaucratic rot

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What drives Dr. Brian Day, one of Canada’s leading advocates of private health care? If we look beyond the headlines and identify what actually motivates him, we will see how to fix medicare in Canada.

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Day has been called “Dr. Profit” and the “Darth Vader” of medicare. Until this summer, most people knew him only from headlines and (generally hostile) media.

Day is best known for having challenged provisions in British Columbia’s Medicare Protection Act that limit private health care in the province. The case, Cambie Surgeries Corporation v British Columbia, involved complex legal arguments entwined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

These are hard to capture in headlines. It’s much easier to reduce Cambie to a story about profit and greed, which is what much of the media did.

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In May, Sutherland House published Day’s new book, “My........

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