Canada’s Vaunted Health Care System Goes on Trial in Supreme Court of Canada
Autistic Children sue for their constitutional rights in Canada’s highest court!
Langley, BC (PRWEB) May 20, 2004 -- Autism is a devastating neurological
condition that science has proven can be overcome with the proper treatment at
an early age. After pain-staking reviews, the British Columbia Superior Courts
agreed with science and decided that treatment for autistic children is
medically necessary and should be provided as part of the children’s
constitutional rights to proper health care. The federal government blatantly
disagrees.
In three separate legal cases heard by three different courts
and on three separate occasions, the British Columbia Superior Courts reviewed
all the research and listened to arguments pertaining to the value of medical
treatment for British Columbia’s autistic children. Each individual case was
judged on it’s own merit. In all three cases, the British Columbia Superior
Court judgments deemed behavioral autism treatment to be “medically necessary”
and to be provided!
In the first case, Auton 2000, [BC Supreme Court the
court clearly stated that the treatment is medically necessary and issued a
court order directing the government to pay for treatment. The second case,
Auton 2002 [BC Court of Appeal – 3 judges, strengthened Auton 2000 and again
ordered the government to pay necessary treatment. The third case, Anderson 2002
[BC Supreme Court upheld the decision, and ordered the government to stop
litigating and pay for the desperately needed treatment of all children with
autism. In all three cases the government ignored the court orders and rejected
the multiple court rulings outright!
In total disrespect to the Canadian
judicial system that they themselves represent, all provincial governments
across the country and the federal government are waging a pitched legal battle
rather than taking care of its children. The legal maneuver is solely intended
to deny Canada’s autistic children their constitutional rights to the treatment
they so desperately need and their families cannot afford. This landmark legal
struggle for the rights of Canada’s autistic children to necessary medical
treatment— the ‘Auton’ case — will be heard before Canada’s highest court in
Ottawa on June 9th & 10th, 2004 with all provinces and the federal
government intervening against the children. The judgment handed down in the
Auton case will have a broad and lasting effect on every single Canadian who is
ever in need of any type of health care.
The core of the Governments’
defense is based on autism health care research produced by B.C. Office of
Health Technology that is skewed and grossly inaccurate. The Government funded
researchers were directed to produce bogus research to defend the government in
this autism treatment lawsuit. This act has crossed the humanitarian line and is
in total conflict with every single Canadian’s constitutional rights. It begs
the question: at what point will the Canadian Government stop wasting taxpayers
dollars funding bogus research performed by corrupt professors, and stop using
other equally as deceptive tactics solely intended to deny Canadian citizens
their constitutional rights to proper health care?
Over thirty years of
scientific study have proven that Lovaas-type autism treatment is the only
successful treatment for debilitated children with autism. The New York
Department of Health and U.S. Surgeon General affirm as much. It’s the only
longitudinal, between-subject designed, matched study in autism treatment
research showing the efficacy of the treatment. There have been over half a
dozen replications, demonstrating that, in every case, the children in the
treatment group SIGNIFICANTLY improved over the control group. In this landmark
study published nearly twenty years ago, half of the children were
indistinguishable from their peers after only 2 1/2 years of behavioral
treatment. Of the remaining children, all made significant gains over their
controls.
Despite this, years of legal appeals by governments in many
provinces have wasted millions upon millions of the taxpayers dollars, funding
court cases instead of funding treatment. The ensuing result of their actions
have forced families — who can ill afford it — to devote more of their shrinking
incomes to providing the necessary treatment for their children and fight for
their constitutional rights to proper health care in court.
The subtext
of the ‘Auton’ case is how government funded autism health research is corrupt
and hopelessly conflicted. Academic researchers were directed to produce bogus
research defending the government’s position in the autism treatment lawsuit.
Although these researchers write their advocacy research behind the crest of the
universities in an attempt to garner legitimacy for their biased work, they
cannot avoid the fact that they are 100% funded by Ministries of Health. Their
money is often laundered through the university to make it look like its arms
length.
Fortunately, well funded academic
mercenaries did not succeed in scuttling this court case: Justice Allan of the
British Columbia Supreme Court found Government’s health policy research on
autism to be “obviously biased.” Undeterred, government funded health academics
are now taking the same distorted autism treatment research to the Supreme Court
of Canada on June 9th for the final, decisive legal battle. To add insult to
injury, the skewed and grossly inaccurate autism health care research funded by
government for the Auton case (produced by B.C. Office of Health Technology) has
crossed the Canadian border. It has become a global nuisance causing very real
harm to children afflicted with the debilitating disorder of autism worldwide.
Simply stated, Canadian junk science is blocking autism health insurance for
children around the world – an export we Canadians should not be proud
of.
Bottom line: Today, there is a new generation of Canadian children
who have unnecessarily lost their futures to the ravages of autism. These
children, with the proper treatment, could now be living happy and productive
lives had it not been for the endless and inhumane legal maneuvering by
government. But instead they are totally dependent on their parents and siblings
for their wellbeing. Eventually these children will end up as wards of the state
costing the taxpayers millions of dollars. Canada’s autistic children deserve
and must receive the unique treatment that science has proven to be effective-
and they so inexcusably have been deprived of. The British Columbia superior
courts have already ruled that the treatment is medically necessary and is owed
to Canada’s autistic children as part of their constitutional rights to proper
health care.
The stakes are high. On June 9th & 10th the Supreme
Court of Canada will preside over whether government’s nearsighted bureaucrats
have free hand to block desperately needed treatment for Canada’s children
disabled by the devastating neurological condition of autism.
The
decision of the court has much bigger implications than merely the impact on
Canada’s autistic children. Our constitutional right to proper health care for
our “core health need” has never been challenged in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Whatever the outcome, it is sure to set a precedent and become the standard by
which all future health care decisions are measured.
A front row seat to
the now famous Auton Case is afforded by Dr. Sabrina Freeman’s whistleblower
expose that chronicles the various techniques government uses in its attempt to
discredit the science behind the uniquely effective, science-based treatment
protocol for autism — Lovass-style behavioral autism treatment. The book is
Science for Sale in the Autism Wars: Medically necessary treatment, the court
battle for health insurance and why health technology academics are enemy number
one.
For more information about autism and the fight for medically
necessary treatment at the Supreme Court of Canada level, please contact Omni
Publicity-Joe Ullrich 813-875-7877
For a copy of Science for Sale in the
Autism Wars, go to www.skfbooks.com
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/prweb127205.htm