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In article <*> buckland@ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland) writes:
> The current chapter in a continuing series of various health care
> crises in British Columbia concerns doctors' outrage and 
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Simulated, of course, on-cue for the news-media.     

> countermeasures in the face of the Provincial Government's actions
> to cap the health care budget and, to that end, to cap billings to
> the (only) health insurance agency by individual doctors.
The BC government has been given a mandate to govern,
and to set the budgetary figures for health-care within the province.
They are willing to negotiate with the doctors on all other issues.
The BC government is in the process of filling 600 new health-care
positions within the province, in an attempt to treat out-patients,
and move the "easy" cases out of expensive hospital-beds.
Does that sound like an uncaring government?

> I wonder if the Governmment has also taken the precaution of
> imposing a cap on cancer cell division rates, LDL and blood pressure
> levels, and the incidence of hip fractures in elderly patients.  No? 
Nothing the BC government is doing will prevent these patients
from being treated.  On the other hand, it's the doctors who are
threatening to ignore their Hippocratic Oath, and refuse to treat them.

> Well, then, the expectable result will be sick people left to
> suffer and/or die.  
Proof, please, that the doctors will refuse to treat sick people!