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I never said hospitals. I said clinics. Research is not something the private sector wants to do in this domain, because it's not profitable.

If all you saw was endoscopies and sports health, you weren't looking. There are tons of generalist clinics.

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What kind of community clinic would see this? The "whistleblower" in this article is a member of the health authority. You expect a generalist seeing rich people for their arthritis to be diving into this?

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That's exactly the point. Private healthcare is not interested in this case at all, nor in any cases like it. It's not profitable.

Also the whistleblower isn't a member of the health authority. He's an employee of Vitalité Network which has a contact with the health authority but is also allowed to operate privately under some provisions.

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Huh? Your logic makes zero sense. Why would a private GP even have the connections to the Health Authority? You claim it's because there is no "profit", I say because "that's not their job".

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You seem not to understand the Canadian health system. Privately owned clinics are allowed to enter in contract with the provincial government and be paid by the public insurance system for services provided. This is the framework under which the doctor was operating.

Doctors of all stripes are allowed to open their own practice take on cases privately. There is simply no profit in opening a private practice to deal with difficult to diagnose cases affecting generally poor people requiring dozens of experts to investigating over multiple years. That's why no doctors decided to set up a private practice to deal with these patients - there is no profit motive. Too much work, and too little pay.