Canadians React To Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling

Majorities Feel Decision Paves Way To Two-Tiered System (64%) And Their Province Should Use Notwithstanding Clause To Ban Private Insurance And Protect Public System (57%)But They Are Split Over Whether Decision Will Lead To American-Style Healthcare (50% Agree/47% Disagree)Majority (70%) Feel They Should Be Able To Buy Private Services If They Want To And Most Think This Ruling Will Lead To Shorter Wait Lists (60%) And Service Improvements (54%)

Saturday, June 18, 2005

Toronto, ON – In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on private healthcare in Quebec, Ipsos-Reid fielded a survey among 1000 Canadians nationally from June 14th-16th, 2005 that sought to gauge the nation’s reaction to this well-publicized judgment. The survey, provided exclusively to CanWest/Global, reveals that Canadians have...