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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by LimpRimble@lemmy.ca to c/britishcolumbia@lemmy.ca

His common sense vision for public safety involves a big increase in addiction treatment programs, most of them private and some of them involuntary, meaning during incarceration. He wants indefinite apprehension of permanently brain-damaged habitual offenders now wandering the streets, on mental health grounds. That could involve invoking the notwithstanding clause in the charter of rights to bypass constitutional concerns if need be, he said.

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[-] Beaver@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

This clown driver needs to lose all political clout

[-] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

The whole thing is worth a read, but this stuck out:

Hospitals now cut services to meet their budget because they look at patients as a cost, he said. “We actually need to reverse that, we need to look at patients as revenue generators.”

[-] ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, that's how the US got to where they are. Profit incentives have no place in healthcare, as it incentivizes the exact opposite of what you want.

If a patient is a revenue generator you'll want to make sure to keep them sick for as long as possible to make more money (or, alternatively, drain them as quickly as possible with exorbitant cost of care then boot them out the door when they can't pay anymore). If a patient is a cost you'll want to make sure they are healed as quickly as possible to avoid a further drain through expenses. And you've also got an incentive to provide high-quality care, because that patient returning means they will increase cost again. So you better do it right the first time around.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

look at patients as revenue generators

Yep. Treat sick people like piggy banks to shake out until all their coins drop out, ruin their life then kick them on the street or let them die. That's the best™ way to do healthcare.

[-] Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago

The hypocrisy is palpable.

[-] SamuelRJankis@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

“I hope I don’t offend people, but [Premier David Eby] is a socialist. He believes very strongly in big government. … He’s also an authoritarian who does not respect democracy and local governance.”

I see a lot Conservatives on social media call people Communist when describing Socialist leaning politics. it's kinda funny if you know any CCP living people here they have a clear bias towards supporting Conservatives.

“That is not the approach that we want to take… and so it’s not a fit for what we are thinking.”

In regards to Rustad firing the current PHO. Do people think it's a good thing to hire Provincial Health Officer based on how they fit their ideology.

[-] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Do people think it’s a good thing to hire Provincial Health Officer based on how they fit their ideology

Way too many people do. Look slightly east for an example.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Nothing will be better for the BC NDP Party that a few years of remindet that they don't like conservative governments and their virtue signaling lawmaking..

[-] villasv@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago

Sometimes takes multiple cycles of conservative power for the people to swing back, and sometimes the damage done in the meantime is irreparable. Lives will be ruined, lives will be lost.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Most definitely. The biggest danger is that Trump gets elected in the US and Candian christofascists double down on copying the US christofascist playbook to try to establish a christofascist dictatorship in Canada.

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