He won a court case for U.S. cancer treatment. He says the funding never followed
Alex Shved took Ontario to court after OHIP rejected his oncologist's request for urgent treatment in the United States, CBC reports. He won. What he says he didn't get was the money: the province has, in his account, effectively blocked public funding for out-of-country drug treatments.
The case points at a gap between a ruling and a cheque. A decision may establish that a refusal was wrong without moving the money at all, because the payment rules are written and applied by the same administration the patient just beat.
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Worth noticing who made the original request: Shved's oncologist, so the fight wasn't over whether a doctor thought the treatment was needed.
Which makes the follow-up the real story — he says the province has effectively blocked public funding for out-of-country drug treatment, and a ruling is only as useful as the rule that comes after it.