I heard today that the Fraser Health Authority is giving its CEO Nigel Murray a $30,000 bonus on top of his $300,000 annual salary. Put that up against the cuts the Authority is making to services for addicted youth and seniors, among others.
Remember that hospital housekeeping workers, who are the first line of defense against [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Health care'
When $300,000 isn’t enough
December 21st, 2009 · Adrienne Montani · 2 Comments · Employment & labour, Health care, Poverty, inequality & welfare
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Healthy eating put out of reach for the poor
December 16th, 2009 · Seth Klein · 5 Comments · Children & youth, Health care, Poverty, inequality & welfare
Remember the Premier’s “Great Golden Goal” (G3?) about healthy eating? True, we don’t hear so much about it these days. But it was a laudable goal. Eating a healthy diet is important if we are to improve the overall health of the population, and thereby help to slow rising health care costs. And it’s particularly [...]
Technology and the future of public health care
December 2nd, 2009 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · Health care, Provincial budget & finance
A couple years ago I put out a report for the CCPA that crunched the numbers on health care sustainability (BC version here). The main finding was that public health care was basically sustainable in that it could handle projected increases in population, aging and inflation as long as GDP continued to grow at a [...]
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Something missing from the H1N1 fight
October 2nd, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · 1 Comment · Education, Health care
When the government announced its plans for dealing with H1N1 in schools on August 24th there was something missing.
The government’s “pandemic response framework”, announced by the Ministers of Education and Healthy Living and sport deals with issues like transporting the sick, communications, roles of emergency response teams, school instruction and post-pandemic recovery plans.
What was missing? [...]
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Poltergeists and P3s: They’re back
September 24th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · Health care, Privatization, P3s & public services
In February, with the spectacular collapse of the $3 billion Port Mann Bridge public private partnership, many people thought P3s in British Columbia were a dead item. They’re back.
With the Fort St. John Hospital project the government’s privatization agency, Partnerships BC (PBC), has found a way to drastically reduce private investment in P3s while still [...]
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Take Two: BC Budget 2009 September Update (Notes from Marc and Iglika)
September 1st, 2009 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · Economy, Health care, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Provincial budget & finance, Taxes
The September BC Budget is a new look at a budget most have come to see as a fake. February’s budget was not passed through the legislature due to the May election, and up to E-Day the government maintained the fiction that it had a small-ish deficit of just under half a billion dollars. Since [...]
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A Framework for Enhancing Home Support in BC
May 4th, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
Home support is an important element of the broader home and community care system, which unfortunately tends to get overlooked in many health care discussions. Home support serves an important dual purpose: it improves the quality of life of vulnerable citizens by allowing them to continue living independently in their own homes and it enables [...]
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Seniors' care concerns should be taken seriously in this election
May 1st, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
Access to residential care beds for seniors was dubbed “an election hotspot” by CTV early last week, and for good reasons. The party that forms government after May’s election will have to deal with the pressures that the aging population would put on the already strained system of seniors’ care in BC.
Fundamentally, providing an accessible [...]
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Docs call for more attention to addiction
April 8th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care, Housing & homelessness
The BC Medical Association released an important report at the end of March. The Vancouver Sun gave it good coverage, but overall it didn’t get the attention it deserved. Stepping Forward: Improving Addiction Care in BC raises a lot of issues worth talking about in an election.
The report estimates there are 400,000 British [...]
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Your government cares about seniors (in up to five communities across the province)
April 7th, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care
This is the message that the Minister of Healthy Living and Sport Mary Polak sent out yesterday with the announcement of a new partnership between the government and the United Way of the Lower Mainland. As part of this partnership, the government will spend $700,000 to fund what sounds like a broad-based community consultation with [...]
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