Surgeon Brian Day spends more time in the courtroom than in the operating room these days, as he wages a legal battle against the B.C. government for what he says is British Columbians’ constitutional right to get surgery from a private clinic when hospital wait-lists are too long.

His critics warn that, if he succeeds, it will create a two-tiered health-care system and erode Canada’s universal health-care system.

Source: https://www.biv.com/article/2016/10/public-face-private-health-care/