Healthcare

LETTER – Privatization would seriously reduce medical services to most of us

July 25, 2022 // 3 Comments

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EDITORIAL – Who won and who lost in court’s rejection of private health care?

July 21, 2022 // 2 Comments

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

July 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

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

June 25, 2022 // 1 Comment

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

June 18, 2022 // 1 Comment

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

June 15, 2022 // 1 Comment

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

May 19, 2022 // 1 Comment

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]

IN THE LEDGE – Royal Inland nurses ‘under immense stress and pressure’

May 2, 2022 // 3 Comments

Excerpts from Question Period in the B.C. Legislature on Monday, May 2, 2022. T. Stone: Only in NDP land would they say that presiding over an increase of 200,000 British [Continue]

COLLINS – Family medicine is almost a thing of the past

April 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

ALMOST ONE MILLION PEOPLE in our province are without a family doctor. That’s one in five people who don’t have primary care. No one they can reach out to, to look after [Continue]

FORSETH – How does cutting health services equate to better patient care?

January 21, 2022 // 4 Comments

HEALTHCARE IN RURAL and small-town B.C. is coming apart at the seams, and the NDP government of Premier John Horgan, and in particular Health Minister Adrian Dix, are letting [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – All I want is a good death. Is that too much to ask?

November 11, 2021 // 2 Comments

LIKE MOST CANADIANS, I’d like to die in my home surrounded by friends and family. Canadians consistently indicate that is their preference, about 85 per cent of the [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Doctors’ cozy club limits our health care system

September 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

CANADA DOESN’T HAVE a shortage of doctors; we have a closed shop that prevents foreign-trained doctors from practicing. The medical establishment prevents them from [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new threat to health care is not privatization, it’s viral

September 2, 2021 // 1 Comment

The COVID pandemic has gone viral. I don’t mean the Delta variant. I mean the mania created by antivaxxers who have whipped up opposition to panic levels. Antivaxxers are [Continue]

STONE – Horgan, NDP have turned their backs on health care in Kamloops

August 29, 2021 // 2 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops- South Thompson I THINK MOST OF US IN KAMLOOPS feel like we’re at our limit. Between an intense fire season that has devastated communities, [Continue]