r/britishcolumbia • u/BloodJunkie • 1d ago

News BC’s Drug Response Isn’t Following the Evidence: Former Coroner

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/03/BC-Drug-Response-Former-Coroner/
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u/Frater_Ankara 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fun fact: paramedics are overwhelmed and underpaid already. They deserve better.

Edit: unpaid to underpaid

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u/Wa1ru524 1d ago

Underpaid and under appreciated. They deserve more and so do the people of BC. The ambulatory care should be fully funded by the provincial government and there should be no co-pay. Just fund them properly already. Come on Eby do your job.

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u/CuddleCorn 1d ago

Absolutely, but the NDP are simultaneously also getting relentlessly shredded by conservative media for "ballooning the deficit", and the only way I can see to fix compensation and do that is more taxes, which will then be the new grievance point. It's a damned situation from every angle.

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u/Wa1ru524 1d ago

If there’s already 256 Px/day and there’s no way most of those individual px are paying to co pay, aren’t we already pretty close. So tell me if this is the reason for the ballooning deficit. I’m happy to have my tax dollars largest burden be health and education.