BC Election

[LEP]

Through covid I was in the hospital overnight with a relative twice. We were the only ones once and one of five another time. I asked the head nurse is this unusual and she said no since covid this is what is considered normal.

She is awesome by the way. Late thirties and could run the place by herself. Then the 6 behind the counter can't be bothered to look up from their phones as you come to ask a question.

[cropgrower]

more absolute garbage from cc , NDP have been in power in manitoba over a year and healthcare has been steadily getting worse

[chuckChuck]

And how were the wait times before the NDP after several terms of the Conservatives?

Tell the who story Crop!

1 year is not enough time to fix much in healthcare unless you think like Crop! LOL

[cropgrower]

wait times were bad and keep getting worse , Surely the wonderful NDP could have done something to stop healthcare getting even worse , fixing it i cant see ever happening under any government , we need the gatekeepers removed and a option of private also

and cc is healthcare perfect in BC ? they have had NDP government for many years

[sumdumguy]

To be fair: How fast do you expect government to reduce waiting time in ER and wait lists for surgery? As I have mentioned before, when I took a class in health economics, taught by Jack Boan, he emphasized that “rationing” is one of the ways to reduce use of health care. There are many people who live to darken the doorstep of our health care providers. Some people have an insatiable appetite for care. If the government provided a limitless supply of healthcare, our economy wouldn’t be spending 35% of the budget on healthcare, costs would probably double. That is not to say that we should have no health care but just playing devil’s advocate.

[furrowtickler]

When the federal government shoves an extra million people into an already stressed health care , education and housing shortage what did they expect the outcome would be ?

meanwhile throwing massive amounts of taxpayer money overseas , huge corruption within their own government through arrive scam , green slush funds and countless other unaccountable black holes leaving no money to help their own taxpayers and provinces deal with an obvious problem they created

[TSIPP]

Probably million extra people per year, I can’t find a doctor, I’ll start looking in smaller towns, maybe I can find one that’s not overbooked.

[furrowtickler]

Then add in a failed drug policy that has led to a massive increase in hospital admissions and bingo , there is there double whammy strain on health care

thanks Liberal / NDP coalition

[chuckChuck]

The provinces have under funded healthcare and procedures.

We knew about the baby boom and the impact it would have and yet governments sat back and waited.

And Conservative and Liberal governments have all supported significant amounts of immigration that has added a lot of demand.

And then covid and the aftermath burnt out so many workers that they have trouble retaining workers let alone hiring new ones. There is still a covid backlog of surgeries to get through.

We need to train more doctors and nurses. Except provinces are cutting the funding to post secondary education too.

Without enough primary care doctors and clinics many people end up in the ER and hospitals.

Without enough long term care many seniors tie up hospital beds that should be in long term care.

All this takes more training, spaces and money!

[sumdumguy]

Hmmm, interesting, in this ultra-thin election, counting problems seem to be a problem. Now it seems one box of over 800+ ballots was missing and in Surrey some votes were just not counted. What is going on? Why does it take weeks for recounts? This doesn’t happen to be an NDP province, does it?

[chuckChuck]

Human error that had no impact on the outcome because it occurred in a riding easily won by the Conservatives.

And it was found with the checks and balances that the system has in place for such errors.

Unlike the US where Trump has been purposely fueling distrust of the electoral system for blatant political reasons. This is how an authoritarian comes to power. With lies and manipulation in a media environment controlled by billionaires.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

. With lies and manipulation in a media environment controlled by billionaires.

Chuck had an epiphany.