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In response to "Speaking of healthcare ... here's something that transpired in the BC government yesterday" by Beryllium

The 1/5th nurses isn't to make service worse. It's just to control costs of health care (and by extension, the total budget).

Posted by Name Withheld By Request (aka BlueKopo) Mar 4 '10, 13:11

Canadians have got to realize that our health care budgets are a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Sure, we'd like to keep those nurses, but can they afford to do that.

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It doesn't make mathematical sense. If you bring the 40%-under-the-average number up to equal the average ... the average changes. For the worse. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 4, 13:16 3
- Do you have a link to the story on this stuff? I'm just saying, that the cut was most likely to control costs justified by the better wait times. - Name Withheld By Request Mar 4, 13:25 2
  - I watched Kevin Falcon say it in Question Period. That the cost-cutting measure would merely increase the wait times to the provincial average. -- nm - Beryllium Mar 4, 13:33 1
    - Right. I see what you are saying, that the average will rise, but that wasn't why they cut the nurses. They cut the nurses because BC is swimming... - Name Withheld By Request Mar 4, 13:39
Careful now, don't criticism government-run health care. It's all the rage. -- nm - Fuzzy Mar 4, 13:14

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The 1/5th nurses isn't to make service worse. It's just to control costs of health care (and by extension, the total budget).

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