20/02/2025
Cataract surgery in Canada or better to travel abroad ?
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Ottawa patients say they have been upsold and pressured to spend hundreds, even thousands, of extra dollars on cataract surgery, despite a promise from the Progressive Conservative government that Ontario residents would never need a credit card to pay for health care.
On Tuesday, the Ottawa Health Coalition, a health advocacy organization with groups across the province, brought forward stories from some patients who say they were pressured and upsold when undergoing cataract surgery. Officials say the increasingly common tales of pressure on patients to spend more should be a bigger issue in the ongoing provincial election campaign
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/cataract-surgery-health-care
