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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
He can book into a private clinic in B.C. and cut that down by a factor of 4, if he's willing to pay for it. Why, Why an 18 month cycle? Because we don't have a focus in the province on actually delivering effective health care. We have too many chiefs and managers and paper pushers and we've lost focus on getting equipment and facilities and doctors and nurses and specialists.
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Couple problems with that. First off the double billing practice (BC gives the clinic / dr money for performing the surgery and they also get direct money the patient).
Add this to the fact that a private job essentially means one less public job. So while he waits 4 months instead of 18, if all the private doctors were actually working in the public system, the wait time would probably be 15 months instead.