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Originally Posted by Dion

Trimming the fat in health care and education should be the way to go but voters rejected that idea from Smith. Throwing dollars after dollars at health care isn't going to solve the problem and the PC govt hasn't shown me they know how to manage health care.

As for primary care centers....



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ontent=2410144

From the same article:

Doctors have a reason to fear a new system – it might shift funding away from a fee-for-service model (one where funds are channelled through doctors, who then hire staff) to directly paying other staff in a clinic. Dr. Slocombe says she's not concerned that doctors may face a pay cut, and UBC's Prof. Wong says some doctors – particularly young ones – are eager to move away from a system that strictly pays doctors who then hire staff.

“Basically you're incentivizing some types of care over others,” with the existing system, said Prof. Wong, who is also a registered nurse. She believes collaborative care is the future. “As the population gets more complex, in terms of their care needs, there needs to be other people involved in their care,” she says.