However, in a move that has provoked baffled and outraged responses, Cornwall city council last week agreed to provide $45,000 in public funding for a new private clinic run by an ND — a naturopathic “doctor.”
“If this is really to address a physician shortage, then it is just completely inappropriate and completely ridiculous,” Cohen, an assistant professor in Queen’s University’s department of family medicine, said in an interview Tuesday.
However, unlike medical doctors, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan doesn’t cover treatments naturopaths offer. “So, this is public money that is really only going to benefit people who can either pay out of pocket for private naturopathy services, or people who have (private) benefits,” said Cohen.
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