Do any of B.C.s political parties have a cure for our increasingly costly health-care system?
During the B.C. Liberal party’s so-called Boy in the Bubble election campaign, ordinary citizens have had few opportunities to confront senior cabinet ministers over health care. One of the rare exceptions occurred in downtown Vancouver on April 28. That afternoon, Colin Hansen, the finance minister and former health-services minister, fielded questions at a candidates’ meeting at the downtown 411 Seniors’ Centre. When it was Gabriella Moro’s turn to speak, she focused on the accountability of regional health authorities. Moro’s voice rose in anger as she described how she spent 18 months trying to gather information and get answers about how to place her mother, now 87 years old, in a long-term-care home in Trail. Moro told Hansen that during this period, she wrote letters to his office, to her mother’s MLA, to her own MLA, to the former Liberal cabinet minister overseeing long-term care, Katherine Whittred, and to the Interior Health Authority. “I kept a diary for one-and-a-half year
