BC Election

[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.

[Jordy2323]

This is how an authoritarian comes to power. With lies and manipulation in a media environment controlled by billionaires.

Upchuck finally says something most will agree on.

[cropgrower]

The oldest marxist trick in the book , control the media and accuse your opponents of everything you are actually doing