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applegrove

(118,659 posts) Tue Aug 23, 2022, 10:39 PM Aug 2022

Doug Ford sneaking private Healthcare into the system toon:

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Doug Ford sneaking private Healthcare into the system toon: (Original Post) applegrove Aug 2022 OP

Telus appears to have more influence over healthcare than the citizens Fiendish Thingy Aug 2022 #1

Some of the four Premiers who called for Government help had surpluses. applegrove Aug 2022 #2

Fiendish Thingy

(15,615 posts)

1. Telus appears to have more influence over healthcare than the citizens

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Wed Aug 24, 2022, 12:31 AM

Aug 2022

As BC flails trying to address doctor shortages, Telus is happy to make a profit with their tele health app and private clinics that charge $4500/yr just to retain the services of a family doctor.

It should be illegal, but apparently loopholes exist for companies like Telus to take advantage of politicians’ ineptitude.

https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/victoria-doctor-retainer-two-tier-healthcare

https://www.cfpc.ca/CFPC/media/Resources/Health-Policy/Corporatization-of-Care.pdf?mibextid=8zg3wr&fbclid=IwAR2DOPok2zY7j6H1VvUf16wQfNYMuqjZx8Toc4ab3QvwmFrko5FCq5ACjjE

applegrove

(118,659 posts)

2. Some of the four Premiers who called for Government help had surpluses.

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 24, 2022, 12:53 AM

Aug 2022

This is a back ended way to carve out a space for private Healthcare, and then do what the US Republicans are doing to public schools: starve them to death.

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