In his recent editorial, Dr Wilson states that Canada and North Korea are the last two countries trying to deny sick people a choice. Surely Cuba can’t have moved ahead of us?
I would appreciate knowing if I have been wrong in telling people that Canada and two brutal communist dictatorships alone share similar prohibitions of freedom of choice.
—G.F.O. Tyers, MD
Vancouver
Yes, Cuba now has a parallel private system. —ED
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