{"id":116109,"date":"2022-09-15T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=116109"},"modified":"2022-09-15T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T19:22:30","slug":"corporate-influence-on-bc-healthcare-concerning-policy-analyst-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/corporate-influence-on-bc-healthcare-concerning-policy-analyst-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate influence on BC healthcare concerning, policy analyst says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Kootenay healthcare system has been under heavy strain after at least four doctors left the area, and the only two walk-in clinics in the region operate in Nelson under limited hours, with same-day appointments only available on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Shortening the backlogs on other critical healthcare areas, such as surgeries and imaging has come with a hefty price tag to private corporations, a new report argues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">According to the report <em>The concerning rise of corporate medicine<\/em>, published in August by think tank Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the annual payments increased by 57 per cent yearly over that time period.<\/p>\n<p>The B.C Government has awarded contracts for close to $393 million to private for-profit imaging and surgery clinics since 2015, the report found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Author Andrew Longhurst told KCR\u2019s Kootenay Morning about the think tank\u2019s report this week, pointing out that the group also found evidence of double-billing of patients on top of the provincial contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>KCR News journalist John Rune reports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-116109-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NEW-bc-healthcare-report.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NEW-bc-healthcare-report.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/NEW-bc-healthcare-report.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Kootenay healthcare system has been under heavy strain after at least four doctors left the area, and the only two walk-in clinics in the region operate in Nelson under limited hours, with same-day appointments only available on weekends. Shortening the backlogs on other critical healthcare areas, such as surgeries and imaging has come&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":116112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223,225],"tags":[2398,18452,18773,18774],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116176,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116109\/revisions\/116176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116109"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=116109"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=116109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}