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Originally Posted by AFireInside
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.
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I don't necessarily disagree it may attract more doctors, I'm just undecided as to how much this will increase patient access. If I was an MD I'd consider it too, why would you not if you could guarantee your pay and see fewer patients (spend more time with the ones you do see). So it probably is a wash at the end of the day - more doctors seeing fewer patients per day = same access as before.
Anyway, this is OT to Alberta politics so I'll stop here.