TORONTO, January 20, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The top billing general practitioner in Toronto in 1998-99 was an abortionist say figures which the Ontario government refused to release prior to a court battle over its failure to disclose the information. The Globe and Mail fought with the province for almost three years and in the end the province was forced to divulge that the family physician (who acts mostly as an abortionist) billed $522,695 for fiscal year and committed 2,280 abortions during that time period.
With the public Ontario Health Insurance Plan paying over $100 to the doctor for an abortion, at least $242,882 of the unnamed doctor’s salary would have come directly from the abortions. The paper reported that “the doctor performed 2,180 abortions before or at 16 weeks gestation, a procedure for which medicare pays $103.40. The doctor performed 100 other abortions, done after 16 weeks gestation, for which the rate is $174.70.” Ontario went to two courts trying to prevent publication of the top 10 most frequently billed procedures that the highest-billing Toronto family physician or general practitioner had made for that given year. In addition to abusing taxpayers by paying for elective abortions, the cost of the court cases to cover up the information was substantial. As well, the courts awarded the Globe $23,226. Interestingly,the Globe points out that “Ontario’s quest to keep that information—and the amounts individual physicians charge to the health-care system—secret means the public has no way of knowing where their tax dollars are going.”
See the Globe and Mail coverage: https://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/TGAM/20030120/ UINFOM/national/national/nationalTorontoHeadline_temp/1/1/4/