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[Victoria Watcher]

Private healthcare has long been discussed in B.C., and new options are hitting the market, including a new clinic on Oak Bay Avenue that offers a tailored virtual healthcare experience for a fee.

 

The clinic has drawn mixed reactions from candidates of the three major parties heading into the B.C. election.

 

The new clinic located along the 1900-block of Oak Bay Avenue is the latest option in the primary care crisis and offers subscription-based healthcare.

 

 

https://cheknews.ca/...idates-1218747/

 

 

 

For unlimited virtual calls to a healthcare team, it’s $67 a month. Add in-person visits with a nurse-practitioner, and the tab jumps to $208.

 

Families are $100 per person, per month.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 October 2024 - 10:57 AM.

[Mike K.]

What’s the alternative? Do we want that money to flow to Washington State, or keep it here?

[Barrister]

Our doctors in Seattle are just great. It is sad that the medical system in BC is failing so many people. 

[spanky123]

 

Private healthcare has long been discussed in B.C., and new options are hitting the market, including a new clinic on Oak Bay Avenue that offers a tailored virtual healthcare experience for a fee.

 

There are several clinics of this type operating in the CRD and South Island. The NDP has turned a blind eye recently as they have been kicking people who use these services off of the healthcare registry waiting list to make their numbers look better. That will come to an end and the loophole the clinics are relying upon will be closed if the NDP remain in power.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

As B.C. residents continue to face record-high wait times for healthcare, a growing demand for private health care has proved to be a lucrative business for entrepreneurs and foreign medical professionals looking to help relieve Canada's health-care woes.

Langford-based Canela Health Connections, created by Jorge Canela, helps B.C. residents access Mexico's growing medical tourism sector as more and more Canadians seek quick and affordable private healthcare abroad.

"I mean, every time I go to Mexico, there are lots of Canadians going there to Puerto Vallarta, to Cancun, Los Cabos, to all the touristic places," Canela said. "If there's so many Canadians coming to Mexico for vacations, why don't they come to fix their issues?"

According to the B.C. government, as of Sept 30, 5,038 people were on a waitlist for hip replacement surgery and 9,464 were on a list for knee replacement surgery, both of which can see wait times of up to 18 months for surgery.


https://www.vicnews....-mexico-7662193

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 November 2024 - 01:27 PM.

[dasmo]

Mexico also has dental tourism.... 

[Barrister]

I prefer the US if for no other reason that with Medicare it is a lot cheaper.

[spanky123]

Mexico also has dental tourism.... 

 

I have a great deal of trust in the capabilities of the healthcare providers in Mexico and other health-tourism countries. What I don't have a great deal of confidence in are the 'parts' they acquire from largely unregulated manufacturers.

 

As I have said many times though, any time an MLA or MP needs healthcare for themselves or their family they are set. How much did we spend on Horgan to be treated in Germany as an example? Unless they start to have issues with their own care then there is no motivation to do anything to fix the system.

Edited by spanky123, 22 November 2024 - 03:06 PM.

[Barrister]

I think no MPP should have a family doctor until everyone in the province has one first. 

[lanforod]

Oh cmon. Horgan was the ambassador to Germany. Wtf is he supposed to do, come home for treatment?

[spanky123]

Oh cmon. Horgan was the ambassador to Germany. Wtf is he supposed to do, come home for treatment?

 

According to media reports, he was in hospital for 5 months prior to his return to Victoria for his passing. His last post to X was in early June.

 

Germany has some of the best leading edge stem cell and immunotherapy cancer treatment teams in the world. Coincidence?

Edited by spanky123, 22 November 2024 - 06:44 PM.

[dasmo]

Not a coincidence.

[Victoria Watcher]

LETTER: Victoria donation for Taylor Swift tickets reveals flaw in tax system

A fair tax system is a much better way to pay for hospitals than relying on the wealthy to donate




I applaud the generous donation made to the Victoria Hospitals Foundation by the person who paid $260,000 for a suite at the Taylor Swift concert. However, the fact of the matter is that if the wealthiest 1% of Canadians paid income tax at the same rate as the rest of us do, there would be enough money to fully fund a top-tier health-care system in Canada and still have enough money left over to pay for every young Canadian to go to university or trade school if they so wished.

Ultimately a fair tax system is a much better way to pay for hospitals than relying on the wealthy to donate if and when they feel like it.

Robert Smith


https://www.vicnews....-system-7687096


What planet is this guy from?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 December 2024 - 09:47 AM.

[Barrister]

I suspect that it may the Planet of the Woke.

[spanky123]

^^ Technically he is correct. The buyer will receive a tax credit for his/her purchase and the rest of us will compensate for that credit. To his direct point there is no incentive for the Government to properly fund hospital equipment if they feel the public will pay for them separately. 

[Victoria Watcher]

He specifically says INCOME TAX.

[spanky123]

^ Of course the wealthiest 1% pay income tax at a much higher rate than others since the tax rates increase with income.

[pontcanna]

Chemainus couple sues Duncan 'childbirth activist,' saying baby injured during birth

 

Gloria Lemay describes herself on one of her websites as a childbirth activist, birth attendant and midwifery educator.

A Chemainus couple who allege their baby was injured during birth is suing the Duncan childbirth advocate they hired, who is permanently banned from acting as a midwife.

They claim Lemay did not disclose that she has never been a licensed midwife and that she has been permanently banned from acting as a midwife since 2000.

They are suing Lemay over alleged injuries to their child’s genitals and reproductive capabilities during an 18-hour home labour before they decided to go to the hospital against Lemay’s advice.

None of the allegations has been tested in court and Lemay has not yet filed a response in court.

They claim she conducted improper and infrequent examinations of the mother, at times snoring loudly during the labour, and told them the baby was not in a breech position, despite concerns from the couple.

She wrongly assured the couple “that a fleshy mass protruding during labour was a ‘vulvar edema’ and that she had seen and dealt with such issues previously, despite this mass being the [child’s] swollen scrotum exiting the birth canal,” the civil claim alleges.

The couple eventually went to hospital, where the baby was born via cesarean section. They claim Lemay refused to go to hospital with them and told them not to mention her involvement in the labour.

She has been the subject of two public advisories by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives, which warned in 2016 and early 2024 that Lemay was representing herself as a midwife.

Lemay is not and has never been registered with the college and is not entitled to practise midwifery in B.C., the college’s most recent advisory said. She is the subject of a permanent court order banning her from providing midwifery services and using the title midwife.

In 1985, Lemay was charged with criminal negligence causing the death of a baby boy in Vancouver. She was convicted in B.C. Supreme Court, but the conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled the fetus was not legally a person.

She was fined $1,000 in 1995 for refusing to give evidence at an inquest probing the death of a baby in 1994. The infant died of cardiac arrest as the result of an infection during delivery.

On her website, Lemay criticizes the regulation of midwifery, saying “the midwifery movement is losing its alternative nature and becoming more and more like the medical model it was supposed to replace.”

 

More: https://www.timescol...g-birth-9936953

[dasmo]

While that person may be terrible at what she does, the names and pictures of doctors in the allopathic system that kill people are never plastered on the pages of the news paper.