#telus being one of the three telecom oligarchs and a private company

[awkward-teabag]

Related to my previous post, Horgan whines about and claims that the feds aren't funding BC healthcare—and it's true the feds' funding of provincial healthcare has gone down for all provinces—but BC is second only to Ontario in how much it spends on healthcare administration fees.

That could be expected if BC were second in population to Ontario but it's not. Quebec is second and has millions more people than BC yet BC spends more on healthcare administration than a province that has 3.5 million more people (and is projected to widen the difference even more in the upcoming year).

Here's the top 5 most populous provinces and roughly what they spend on healthcare admin fees per resident:

Ontario: $37.92

Quebec: $40.13

British Columbia: $78.26

Alberta: $32.36

Manitoba: $39.63

So $32-$40/per resident is about the norm... except for BC which is double that.

And keep in mind these are admin fees, not what's spent on frontline healthcare workers. BC has some of the most bloated and unneeded overhead costs for healthcare in not just Canada but the whole world and employs roughly 5x the number needed.

But the money still comes from the same funding pool.

And Horgan complains BC doesn't have enough money all while he and the province is spending double the national average on office overhead that could easily be trimmed back.

And to add insult to injury, the provincial government is paying private practices to do essential surgeries, paying to fly people to different provinces and the US for healthcare, and paying to bring in private nurses that work for private companies to cover shifts. All while saying it couldn't possibly pay doctors or nurses more and the fee-for-pay system is working perfectly.

But Trudeau's being a big meany and not giving Horgan even more money to spend on admin fees and on private companies *eyeroll*