Reading Time: 4 minutes Paying doctors more did not improve primary care – and cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars
Author: Ruth Lavergne
Ruth is a quantitative researcher who uses observational methods and large administrative datasets to examine health care delivery and evaluate policies. Prior to her appointment as Assistant Professor at SFU in July 2016 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University. She completed her PhD at the University of British Columbia in 2015.
BC’s billion dollar healthcare boondoggle
Reading Time: 4 minutes The province Increased incentives payments to doctors to try to improve patients’ access to care. It didn’t work.