The BC Health Coalition launches Platform for Public Health Care

NationBuilder r1 CTV and Global News have already covered the platform. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌


Hi Paov,

The BC Health Coalition just launched a platform to raise the bar on which commitments the provincial parties make in the election.

We will be asking candidates and parties to say where they stand on six priority solutions that will deliver a real impact on the health of all BC residents.

The full platform is comprehensive of the entire public health care system (you can read it here). We have focused on six priority solutions that would address the most pressing issues facing people across BC and heal the underlying strains on our system.

Six Solutions to Heal Public Health Care:

  • Guarantee access to on-going Primary Health Care
  • Provide coverage for medicines that people rely on
  • Rapidly reduce surgical wait-times
  • Improve access to and quality of seniors care
  • Protect funding for public health care from being used as profits
  • Create sustainable working conditions for all health care workers

Do these sound like commitments you want British Columbia to adopt? Join the campaign calling on candidates... and parties to commit to Six Solutions to heal and improve public health care in BC.

Pledge Your Vote For Public Health Care

CTV and Global News have already covered the platform. Below is a excerpt from an interview with Mike Smyth at Global News.

Mike Smyth: Why would we continue to double down on a system where we are having so many problems right now… the shortage of doctors and nurses, the crowded hospitals, the backlog, people on stretchers in hospital corridors or even in bathrooms, emergency rooms being shut down… Why not try something different?

Ayendri Riddell - BC Health Coalition:
“…. Alberta, Ontario, BC, Quebec have tried this strategy of increasing the use of for-profit surgical clinics. Alberta [launched a new strategy to increase use of private surgical clinics] in 2020, they're four years out, and their wait times have only increased, and they’re rapidly increasing, more so than any part of the country. Whereas [in 2014] Saskatchewan implemented a public sector innovation, and introduced a centralized wait-list, they saw a reduction in wait-times by 89% in the first year. This is why we need public health care improved, and not dismantled.

The election is in just 2 weeks, and the future of our health care system is at stake. We are calling on our members to champion real solutions and vote for public health care.

Pledge Your Vote For Public Health Care

Thanks in advance for your help,

Ayendri Riddell (she/her)
Director of Policy and Campaigns, BC Health Coalition

https://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/

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