Bureaucrat Overload

In yesterday's announcement that Physicians have reached a four-year deal with the Province of B.C., something other than doctors' wage increase popped up.

But first things first...the doctors.

"This is a good agreement for the public," said Dr. Shelley Ross, president of the medical association.
"It puts money in specific programs that help chronic disease, help mental health, help the frail-elderly, look at getting physicians into the rural areas, looks at getting more specialists into areas where we need them, as well."

One physician, though, dropped a bombshell when he said the deal could be better...for the public.

According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Dr. Dennis Karpiak, a former member of the medical association's board, said too much money is going to bureaucracy.

"We have in B.C. 11 times the number of bureaucrats per capita that Germany has," he said.

Eleven times?
Wow.

Karpiak said he'd like to see that issue addressed because bureaucracy is stealing resources away from real patient care and that the system is unsustainable.

The BC Medical Association has more than 11,000 members, and about 8,500 of them still practise medicine.


British Columbia's health care budget has more than doubled in the last 10 years.
But where's the money going when hospital wait-lists are twice as long? 

Did you know that there is one administrator for every two patients?
Yup.

While tens of thousands of British Columbians suffer on waiting lists for real health care, the BC government is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars each year on redundant “administration”.

Unsustainable is a word increasingly bandied about, most often from taxpayers in the District of Coldstream.

"In Coldstream, we've got bureaucrat OVERLORDS, not OVERLOAD" offers Kia.