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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Doctors' Strike
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Date: Sun, 13-Jul-86 09:07:37 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 13 09:07:37 1986
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Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
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Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Bill 94 says very little

In article <293@xios.UUCP> alex@xios.UUCP (Alex B Laney) writes:
>		I don't believe that that has been compromised by Bill 94
>specifically. I would have to read the Bill.

The Health Care Accessibility Act, known before its enactment as
Bill 94, is one of the shortest pieces of legislation I've ever
seen.  I don't have it in front of me, but it only has one section
other than definitions and penalties. That section says something
like "A doctor shall not charge or accept a fee which is greater than
that provided for by the Plan." (That's not quite right, but it's
close. The key operative words are definitely "charge" and "accept".
I looked it up some months ago to find out whether its form of
drafting would preclude our making genuinely independent and
voluntary contractual arrangements with our doctor for a higher
fee.  It does.)

Incidentally, continuing to refer to it by its bill number introduces
a certain ambiguity (which of course is cleared up by the context,
usually. It was Bill 94 of the 1985 session of the Legislature.
If the Legislature is equally active in 1986, then sometime this
November or so we'll see another Bill 94 which likely will have
nothing whatsoever to do with doctors (possibly an amendment to
the Pregnant Mares Urine Act or the Lightning Rods Act).

Dave Sherman (non-practising lawyer)
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto
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