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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Have not seen any evidence that the BC pay increase will actually improve patient access to healthcare (I have not looked at the details so stand to be corrected). The argument could be made that if doctors no longer need to push through as many patients as possible in order for the billing to cover their costs they might actually see fewer patients than they do now. Better care, but for fewer people. Unless this entices more doctors to actually locate to BC it may not do much to resolve the patient access issue. Good for the doctors however, this seems like a way better pay for service model than other provinces are using.
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It's designed to keep their current doctors and attract new doctors and it's going to work. You combine that with a nice area of the country to live and you'll get more people. On top of having a government that's willing to work with doctors or even other HCW's is attractive as well.
I don't think BC needed to even offer anywhere near what they just did to attract more doctors.