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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]