Reading Time: 4 minutes We’ve seen decades of policy paralysis, with provinces constantly under threat of penalty for exploring policy options
Tag: BC Health care
Private care is an essential part of an effective health system
Reading Time: 3 minutes We should stop demonizing private clinics – and the patients who need them – and recognize that they’re part of the solution
Seniors migration costs B.C. $7.2 billion in health-care expenses
Reading Time: 3 minutes Migrating seniors are likely to have paid most of their lifetime taxes in one province while consuming most of their health care in another
Private health care isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution
Reading Time: 3 minutes While some patients may be able to wait for treatment without suffering adverse consequences, many others may be in pain, unable to work or live full lives
British Columbia’s failed primary care experiment
Reading Time: 4 minutes Paying doctors more did not improve primary care – and cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars
Health-care spending increases point to unsustainable future
Reading Time: 3 minutes Provincial governments need to start re-examining how their health-care dollars are spent or implementing meaningful health-care reform now
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.
Future of Canadian healthcare system at a crossroads
Reading Time: 4 minutes Doctors of BC election for president a battle between which values – profit or public good – will guide the profession
BC needs to fully embrace private sector healthcare delivery
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government monopoly is clearly failing British Columbians