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Originally Posted by Ozabald
You do realize much of the private health care which exists in BC today first came on-stream during the Glen Clark NDP government. The Cambie Surgical Centre, which opened in 1996, was used by the Clark government to take the pressure off the public health system by referring ICBC and WCB patients.
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And the Campbell and Christy Clark administrations took us the other 90% of the way there by shrinking the budget/staff, closing hospitals and reducing graduate numbers.
The neocon playbook is to shrivel a public sector until it stops working well, turn the public against it, and then sell it off to their donors (until the public gets sick of that and has the government renationalize it at a higher cost, e.g. Dynalife in Alberta); it's only now with the Horgan/Eby administrations that we're getting money dumped back into health.
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