charbonneau-–-all-doctors-should-become-government-employees

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CHARBONNEAU – All doctors should become government employees

SINCE DOCTOR want the benefits of employees, the logical thing to do is to make them employees of the government. Some already are. Associations representing family doctors in British Columbia say that they want paid sick days, vacation coverage, extended health and dental benefits, and a pension plan. Two groups, the B.C. College of Family Physicians and B.C. Family Doctors, are lobbying politicians in advance of the provincial election on Oct. 19 for changes in their working conditions. They say the province is in a “family doctor crisis.” I couldn’t agree more. I’m one of 700,000 British Columbians who don’t have a family doctor. My doctor for 20 years worked in the traditional model, that is, a business model where he rented office space and hired staff and was paid by B.C.’s Medical Services Plan (MSP) on a fee-for-service basis. When he “retired,” he didn’t stop practicing medicine – he became a “hospitalist,” an employee of the government hired to work at Royal Inland Hospital. Many new doctors want to practice medicine without the hassle of running a business. They don’t want to labour at a model that is broken. The fee-for-service means of income barely makes ends meet — [...]

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CHARBONNEAU – All doctors should become government employees

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