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[Nparker]

But again, we have close to $1 billion for a museum no one asked for.

[spanky123]

The COVID-19 pandemic has cost B.C.’s taxpayers more than $1 billion in health-care funding.

For the first time, British Columbians are getting a broader look at how much managing the pandemic has cost taxpayers.

The federal government has provided COVID-19 vaccines free of charge to the provinces. But British Columbia spent $550 million to rent out clinic space, hire staff and build infrastructure to administer more than 11 million vaccines.

The price tag on vaccination is still an estimate and is expected to be higher when the fiscal year ends.

 

https://globalnews.c...lth-care-costs/

 

So they only paid 10x what it would have cost to have pharmacists do the vaccine. 

 

I had heard that GPs who were brought in to augment the nursing staff to do vaccinations were paid in excess of $200 an hour plus overtime.

Edited by spanky123, 27 May 2022 - 12:36 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Over $400 per hour in some provinces.

[sebberry]

So they only paid 10x what it would have cost to have pharmacists do the vaccine. 

 

The cold storage requirements of the Pfizer vaccine rendered it unsuitable for pharmacy distribution.

[dasmo]

The cold storage requirements of the Pfizer vaccine rendered it unsuitable for pharmacy distribution.

May 24, 2021

 

Ultra-Cold Storage Of Pfizer Vaccine No Longer Required By FDA The FDA approved Pfizer's application for a change in policy that allows its coronavirus shot to be transported and stored in ordinary freezers. The move could make it easier to administer shots from more locations around the U.S.

There is a welcome development in Pfizer’s vaccine storage! The US Food and Drug Administration recently gave the green light to store Pfizer’s covid vaccine in standard refrigeration. The storing can last at least a month. On the other hand, the Department of Health Canada authorized the Pfizer vax for storage between 2°C and 8°C.

https://pharma-mon.c...re-requirement/

[JimV]

Whatever the merits of the museum plan this “more federal funding” excuse is wearing thin.  The system itself is broken and pumping in more borrowed (or more precisely - created) dollars is not going to fix it.  We need a parallel private system to alleviate the demand on the public one.  There’s nothing radical about that concept, most advanced countries use it.  I don’t know why Canadians are so afraid of facing the facts.

[LJ]

VIHA UPCC's are staffed at 39%.

[Nparker]

VIHA UPCC's are staffed at 39%.

Pathetic, but I am sure Horgan and Dix pat themselves on their backs over these amazing statistics.

 

#museumsdontsavelives

[JohnN]

“Time is money: B.C. doctors' group proposes 'overnight' fix for primary care crisis” https://bc.ctvnews.c...risis-1.5917297

Edited by JohnN, 28 May 2022 - 04:46 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

^ can people put a title or some context before they just drop a link?

EDIT

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 May 2022 - 04:47 PM.

[Mike K.]

Yes, we would prefer that. Links eventually die and the content can be lost forever.

[Victoria Watcher]

For more than two months now, 70-year-old Francis (Phuc Van) Tran says he has found it extremely difficult to eat anything. He's lost a significant amount of weight, and prescriptions for probiotics and heartburn medication haven't helped.

During a visit to the emergency room on April 7, the oyster farmer from Vancouver Island finally learned the reason for his lack of appetite: there's a 10-centimetre tumour and two smaller growths on his liver, likely related to a previously undiagnosed hepatitis B infection he'd contracted decades ago in his home country of Vietnam.

He hoped to get a quick referral to a specialist, and says he was told the tumours could be dealt with through surgery if action was taken quickly.

But this week, Tran and his family learned he won't have his first appointment with an oncologist in Vancouver until June 20 — more than 10 weeks after the tumours were discovered.



https://www.cbc.ca/n...ehind-1.6469053


I don’t recall John Horgan having a long wait until treatment.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 May 2022 - 07:00 AM.

[Nparker]

A situation that might have been avoided altogether if Mr Tran had access to a primary care physician. Perhaps once he gets his surgery he can set a goal of visiting the new RBCM in 2030.

[spanky123]

I don’t recall John Horgan having a long wait until treatment.

 

Or Grace Lore's kid for that matter. Seemed to get treatment right away as soon as she was elected.

[spanky123]

A situation that might have been avoided altogether if Mr Tran had access to a primary care physician. Perhaps once he gets his surgery he can set a goal of visiting the new RBCM in 2030.

 

Would have only been part of the solution. You can wait years to get seen by a specialist in BC unless you know how to work the system. 

[Nparker]

Would have only been part of the solution. You can wait years to get seen by a specialist in BC unless you know how to work the system.

Agreed, but how many illnesses are going undiagnosed due to the lack of family and primary care practitioners?

[spanky123]

Agreed, but how many illnesses are going undiagnosed due to the lack of family and primary care practitioners?

 

Lots and that is why I keep telling people that unless they are a politician, athlete media personality or have $$$, they are on their own and need to advocate for their own best interests. Even if you can get a tele-health appointment these days, it is 6 minutes and the GP probably has no access to any of your history so the best you can hope to do is quickly tell your story and know what to ask for.

[Mike K.]

You mean we still don’t have an electronic health record?

[spanky123]

You mean we still don’t have an electronic health record?

 

Many of the tele-health doctors aren't in BC, they just have MSP billing numbers. Even if they are in BC and have access to tele-health, you think they have time to get your info and pull your records, read the details and ask you meaningful questions in the 6 minutes they have with you?

[JohnN]

Penny Daflos/CTV News: Wave of health-care resignations in Northern B.C. as calls grow for audit (May 28)

-- A wave of resignations among Northern B.C. health-care workers – including half the doctors in the intensive care unit of the region’s biggest hospitals – is raising alarms among civic leaders already calling for an audit.

 

Penny Daflos/CTV News: How a 'Band-Aid' urgent care strategy contributed to B.C.'s primary care crisis (May 25)

--The decision to focus on urgent and emergency health care to avert long waits played a key role in B.C.’s current primary care crisis, and the costlier care is compounding the problem.

 

Penny Daflos tweets May 30: "The system is teetering," said  @jjhorgan today

That's the biggest admission we've seen from #bcpoli about where our healthcare system is

Edited by JohnN, 30 May 2022 - 04:40 PM.