CHARBONNEAU – Provinces come to their senses on healthcare money
ORDINARILY, provinces only want one thing from the feds – money. So when the feds offer money in exchange for something, provinces are reluctant to accept. All that has [Continue]
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CHARBONNEAU – Provinces don’t want/want to meet with feds over health care
PROVINCES ARE SENDING mixed messages. First they meet but reject previously negotiated terms. A month later, they want to meet but are unwilling to negotiate. Make up your [Continue]
LETTER – Bill 36 is an outrageous attack on fundamental rights and freedoms
A letter I sent this morning to the Premier and Health Minister. Good Morning First let me say that I have been a lifelong supporter of the NDP. I was a delegate to [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Will a lower standard of health care become permanent?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HAVE YOU EVER felt you needed to talk to a doctor but didn’t do so because a) you knew it would be weeks before you could get an [Continue]
PETERS – Moving away from half-measures in the B.C. healthcare system
WE HEARD ANOTHER MEASURE of our public healthcare crisis recently. A whopping 40 per cent of Kamloops residents don’t have a family doctor — well above the provincial [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Half can’t find a doctor or get a timely appointment
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE September 8, 2022 – When Dr. David Eaton retires later this year, 1,400 of the approximately 2,800 people of Wheatley, Ont. will be losing their [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Millions have chronic difficulty getting health care
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE September 7, 2022 – A summer of health care related horror stories – from emergency room closures to doctor shortages to surgery delays – is [Continue]
LETTER – Privatization would seriously reduce medical services to most of us
Re: Editorial – Who won and who lost in court’s rejection of private health care? For the past number of years I have enjoyed your comments on the news program [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Who won and who lost in court’s rejection of private health care?
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC HEALTH CARE scored a victory in court with the rejection of an attempt by Dr. Brian Day to have legislation that prohibits double [Continue]
EDITORIAL – The irony of the premiers meeting as Clearwater hospital closes again
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIRTEEN PREMIERS wrapped up two days of meetings yesterday. As expected, health care was the big agenda item. Coincidentally, as the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – B.C. Clinics: a new business model for doctors
I SUGGEST that a new government agency, I’m calling BC Clinics, be established to deal with the crisis in accessibility to health care. The fee-for-service model no longer [Continue]
PETERS – Link between health and happiness may explain dissatisfaction
THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS OF THE WEEK may have come on Monday, when Statistics Canada released some results from its Canadian Social Survey. It reported that the province whose [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Doctor-incentive plan amounts to robbing Peter to pay Paul
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DOCTOR SHORTAGE was the subject of a presentation to Kamloops City council on Tuesday that was both highly encouraging and decidedly [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Doctors’ pay model wasn’t always broken
WHILE DOCTORS weren’t happy with Medicare at first, they eventually approved of the pay model. Doctors went on strike in Saskatchewan when Medicare was first enacted in [Continue]
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