The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 10, 2024


David Eby's NDP have ruined the BC healthcare system

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healthcare wait times in BC donation campaign
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David Eby John Rustad John Horgan Adriana LaGrange Justin Trudeau John Ruiz Surrey
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Fearing the momentum of the BC Conservative Party, British Columbia Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party are now going on the offensive against John Rustad and the BC Tories on the issue of healthcare. This is probably the dumbest thing the BC NDP could do because their record on healthcare is absolutely abysmal.

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00:00:00.000 Fearing the polling momentum of the BC Conservative Party, British Columbia Premier David Eby and his BC NDP party are now going on the offensive against John Rustad and the BC Conservatives on the issue of healthcare. 0.58
00:00:14.820 Probably the dumbest thing the BC NDP could do because their record on healthcare is absolutely abysmal.
00:00:21.500 But before I get into digging into the record of David Eby and the NDP on healthcare, I just want to show you what the NDP posted on X the other day. 0.90
00:00:31.640 This post that they made a few days ago said,
00:00:34.680 John Rustad and the BC Liberals promised to get every British Columbian a family doctor by 2015.
00:00:40.960 Then they said no to a second medical school and made the problem much worse.
00:00:45.360 David Eby is building it and training more family doctors.
00:00:48.700 And then the graphic says, building a new medical school in Surrey to train more doctors over David Eby's photo.
00:00:56.060 And then over John Rustad, it says, said no to a new medical school in 2009 and let the doctor shortage get worse.
00:01:03.620 This is extremely hilarious and ironic at the same time.
00:01:08.480 You might be thinking to yourself if you live in BC and you know about the situation,
00:01:12.420 didn't David Eby fire all unvaccinated nurses and doctors who didn't want to get the COVID vaccine
00:01:19.600 and they still haven't been allowed back to work and we are in the middle of a doctor shortage as he is admitting.
00:01:26.460 He's trying to fight back by building a new school.
00:01:28.720 But why would you stop thousands of nurses and doctors from practicing in British Columbia?
00:01:33.900 Well, it's because David Eby is an activist.
00:01:37.420 He is not an actual government manager.
00:01:40.000 He doesn't know how to manage anything.
00:01:41.540 He's not a leader.
00:01:42.640 He is a protester who somehow is occupying the premier's office.
00:01:46.920 And it's absolutely insane why they would even bring up health care.
00:01:50.920 Their performance is absolutely terrible.
00:01:53.560 Let's start off with what David Eby is trying to invoke in this post about the idea that
00:02:00.120 John Rustad is somehow against expanding the amount of doctors and nurses in the province
00:02:05.700 and David Eby is fighting hard to do so.
00:02:08.780 How is it that between 2015 and 16, when the NDP first came into office and now by the end of 2020,
00:02:18.520 and it's gotten even worse since then, we just don't have statistics for it,
00:02:21.260 the amount of doctors, the amount, the percentage of British Columbians who have a family doctor
00:02:26.840 has fallen from 83.4% all the way down to 81.7%.
00:02:32.260 I believe I saw recently the number might be as low as 78% or lower.
00:02:38.840 Here's another thing, hip fracture surgeries that can be done within 48 hours.
00:02:43.640 Back in 2018-19, when John Horgan was still in charge of the province,
00:02:47.960 a much better NDP premier than David Eby, none.
00:02:51.260 Not good, but at least not horrific, the amount of people who are able to get surgery
00:02:56.940 for a hip fracture, which is a standard metric for determining how well the healthcare system
00:03:02.480 is performing, 86.3% of those procedures could be done in 48 hours back in the 2018-19 year.
00:03:11.500 Now in the 2022-23 year, only 72.3% of them are being done within that time.
00:03:18.540 The Canadian performance overall has gone down, but it has not gone down at the rate it's gone down
00:03:25.120 in British Columbia, and this is not because of international issues, not because a new medical school
00:03:32.380 wasn't built, it's because of the policies of David Eby and the NDP.
00:03:38.060 If they were actually offering proper incentives to become a doctor and they weren't literally firing doctors,
00:03:43.740 they could get these procedures done faster and more British Columbians would have a family doctor.
00:03:50.320 But David Eby wants to pretend that rhetoric alone is the actual measure of leadership.
00:03:56.800 So that John Ress said something he didn't like back in 2009, that's the real problem,
00:04:02.360 not the actual fact that the medical system in British Columbia is absolutely screwed right now.
00:04:09.460 And although the NDP gets to coast along on the idea that they're the ones who really care about
00:04:15.520 public services and they care about public health, service spending per capita has been going down
00:04:23.260 in British Columbia in the last few years. Yes, it was spiking during COVID, but it's actually
00:04:28.440 flatlining while the population of the province is going up significantly. Yes, that is a problem of
00:04:35.400 Justin Trudeau and the federal liberals having a policy of mass immigration. But that's also a policy
00:04:41.180 that David Eby endorses, he likes, and he is not allowed for the development of housing that can
00:04:47.680 actually handle that population. And at the same time that the per capita service spending, program
00:04:53.840 spending has been going down in British Columbia, net debt has been going up significantly.
00:05:00.520 Back in 2016-17, net debt per British Columbian was $10,000, around that. Now it's $13,500.
00:05:11.640 That's a massive increase, nobody could deny that. And although he can say, well, it's COVID spending,
00:05:17.560 COVID air spending, you can't say that, well, I was irresponsible, but only during a couple year period,
00:05:23.380 because this has been going on well before COVID. At least you could say that John Horgan was actually
00:05:28.260 getting control of per capita debt. But since 2020, it's only actually didn't even exactly go up a lot
00:05:36.760 during the actual COVID years. It's only going up now in 2023 and 24, because David Eby needs to win
00:05:43.900 a re-election. And so he's throwing out money all over the place. So now I want to talk a little bit
00:05:50.480 about healthcare wait times. Wait times tend to be the gold standard of how we evaluate the health
00:05:57.400 of a healthcare system. I got a lot of these from the Fraser Institute. I want to go to the 2019
00:06:04.340 numbers first. But this is the Canadian healthcare wait times back in between 1993 and 2019, which the
00:06:12.940 Fraser Institute uses as their base, because that was the first year they started tracking wait times
00:06:17.560 across Canada and in specific provinces. So in Canada, back in 1993, wait times for seeing a
00:06:25.260 general practitioner was 3.7 weeks. And from the specialist to actual treatment, it was 5.6 weeks
00:06:34.020 for a total of 9.3 weeks on average to go from your GP to getting treatment from a specialist. In 2019,
00:06:41.120 Canada's healthcare system had been deteriorating quite a bit, and it had gone from 9.3 weeks on
00:06:48.880 average from GP to specialist treatment to 20.9 weeks. This is British Columbia during the same
00:06:57.440 period. So in 1993, it was 10.4 weeks for the GP to specialist treatment. And by 2019, it was 24 weeks
00:07:06.600 to specialist treatment. Yes, that's not David Eby's fault. He wasn't the premier during this time.
00:07:12.360 Well, let's jump forward to a chart that actually shows a time period where he was premier for a
00:07:17.300 significant amount of time or was in John Horgan's government. So this shows that since this number
00:07:25.300 of 24 weeks in 2019, the BC healthcare wait times have jumped another 3.7 weeks. It is now 27.7 weeks
00:07:36.600 on average in British Columbia from going from your general practitioner to actually getting
00:07:43.020 specialist treatment. That is abysmal. And while it's not the worst in Canada, the other provinces
00:07:49.100 have actually been improving. The worst in Canada outside of the Maritimes where there are population 1.00
00:07:55.200 issues regarding healthcare spending that's available because of it being a smaller, you know, a smaller
00:08:01.340 revenue government jurisdiction. Alberta is the worst in Canada. I live in Alberta. It is the
00:08:07.740 national shame or the provincial shame of Alberta that our healthcare system is actually quite bad
00:08:12.860 despite all of the spending we do. Although we've actually been improving recently because they've
00:08:18.280 been cutting the fat and decentralizing a lot of the healthcare decision-making. They've actually been
00:08:25.080 on this is, I believe, wait times just for surgeries. Hip surgeries are a good long-term metric for how
00:08:32.200 good your healthcare system is doing for wait times. When you actually go on the average, the average
00:08:39.260 wait time for hip surgeries has gone from 41 weeks to 38.7 to 35.9 to 35.4 to 30 weeks. That is an amazing
00:08:48.400 increase. So I do not doubt that when the Fraser Institute surveys Alberta between the 2024 and 2025
00:08:55.600 years, our wait times are actually going to plunge significantly because Adrienne Lagrange, our health
00:09:01.920 minister in Alberta, is actually cutting away the bureaucracy. She's actually letting doctors do their 1.00
00:09:07.840 jobs and doing less nonsense paperwork. They're letting unvaccinated nurses and doctors come back and work 1.00
00:09:14.720 for AHS or for their regional healthcare system since they're going to be breaking up AHS because it's a
00:09:20.720 massive bureaucratic money-burning pit. And so they're trying to make sure that we're actually
00:09:25.920 fast-tracking people to healthcare, not having all these bureaucratic checks and processes and paperwork
00:09:33.200 barriers that stand in people's way from getting basic procedures done that have been done thousands of
00:09:40.000 times a year. So there's no excuse for British Columbia, who's in a better position than Alberta,
00:09:48.480 for their wait times to continue going up. BC should be able to make the improvements that Alberta has made,
00:09:55.920 but David Eby is such an activist that he cares more about the ideal, the left-wing ideal,
00:10:04.320 the public healthcare ideal of vaccine mandates. He cares more about servicing the bureaucracy,
00:10:11.760 making sure that those bureaucratic union jobs are kept in place, that we have all these nonsensical
00:10:18.240 HR positions held down. It's not about medical schools because we could be bringing in doctors
00:10:24.080 from other provinces. If BC was such an attractive place to be a doctor, people would be jumping over
00:10:30.000 the border to do it. People would be coming from overseas to be a doctor in BC, up from the United
00:10:34.640 States, from Australia, New Zealand, the UK. But nobody wants to be a doctor in BC these days because
00:10:40.640 either you have to be vaccinated or you have to deal with the bureaucratic tanglework of nonsense
00:10:46.560 that David Eby and John Horgan before him have incentivized because that helps the interest groups
00:10:53.280 that get David Eby votes. Overpaid public service workers who don't actually have anything to do with
00:11:00.560 healthcare. This was the biggest issue in Alberta for the longest time. For every nurse, there was an
00:11:06.640 HR rep, there was some manager on their floor, there was multiple people who were just pushing paperwork
00:11:13.280 around for getting approvals and doing diversity checks and doing other sort of like efficiency
00:11:20.000 checks, all stuff that was actually making the system less efficient. And David Eby is doing the
00:11:25.440 same thing that Alberta was doing wrong for so many years, getting more people hired into the healthcare 0.96
00:11:31.040 system who have nothing to do with actual healthcare delivery. That's why I hope if you're in British
00:11:37.840 Columbia, you consider voting for the BC Conservative Party because they are actually going to make the BC
00:11:43.920 healthcare system less bureaucratic and more healthcare focused. Getting people care
00:11:49.920 not getting them, not getting them paperwork effectively. Less paperwork, more actual medicine
00:11:56.800 being practiced. So if you also live in British Columbia, consider donating to the BC Conservatives.
00:12:03.040 The NDP still have a fundraising advantage over them. And even though the BC NDP are a flaming car wreck,
00:12:09.760 the BC Conservatives are, even though they have less funding, can easily beat them. They are within two
00:12:15.040 points of the NDP with a lot of time to go until the provincial election in October. They have a lot
00:12:20.560 of momentum. They just need the money to actually be able to run campaigns. So I have a donation link
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00:12:31.040 Columbia. If you give $100, you get $75 back in a tax credit. But, you know, so I'm begging you,
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