Reading Time: 3 minutes Will they take the money and run or stick to their principles?
Tag: BC Health care
Tone-deaf politicians ignore the realities of health care
Reading Time: 3 minutes Political expediency once again trumps the realities of fixing health care
Why our health system treats Canadians poorly
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do we or the government own our bodies?
What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
Sex is okay, just don’t sing
Reading Time: 4 minutes Sex advice for pandemic prevention makes as much sense as implementing a security system while leaving the front door open
Palliative care suffers because of MAID
Reading Time: 3 minutes “It is easier and cheaper for the government to provide euthanasia rather than continue with palliative care”
Health authority threatens to shut down hospice for not providing assisted suicide
Reading Time: 3 minutes A B.C. private hospice must drop its refusal to provide medical assistance in dying (MAID) for qualifying patients in its care. Or else
Patients deserve access to timely medical care
Reading Time: 4 minutes The B.C. government’s claim in the court challenge to medicare that waiting lists don’t harm patients is nothing short of ridiculous
Before implementing national pharmacare, look at what provinces already offer
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of using scarce health-care dollars broadly, we should identify and support those Canadians falling through the cracks
Average workers will ultimately pay B.C.’s new payroll tax
Reading Time: 3 minutes Health tax will reduce wages and job opportunities, and further erode the province’s investment climate