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Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government underfunding, leaked paper

• Vancouver Sun
Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP health critic Adrian Dix said Monday. Dix said a Vancouver Coastal Health Authority document shows it is considering chopping more than 6,000 surgeries in an effort to make up for a dramatic budgetary shortfall that could reach $200 million. “This hasn’t been announced by the health authority … but these cuts are coming,” Dix said, citing figures gleaned from a leaked executive summary of “proposed VCH surgical reductions.” The health authority confirmed the document is genuine, but said it represents ideas only. “It is a planning document. It has not been approved or implemented,” said spokeswoman Anna Marie D’Angelo. Dr. Brian Brodie, president of the BC Medical Association, called the proposed surgical cuts “a nightmare.” “Why would you begin your cost-cutting measures on medically necessary surgery? I just can’t

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Comment by RickStone
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 Has anyone come to the suspicion that Lucky Red is a police or FBI provocateur? He seems to disagree with anything and everything and is always trying to insult or stir up peoples negative emotions. For someone that is so unhappy and disagrees with so many articles on FP it begs the question. Why are you here and why don't you go to other sites that follow and mirror your political views ? You agree with nothing and contribute nothing but annoying static. Which department do you work for? 

Comment by Lucky Red
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 And the Right Wing Nutjobs, not satisfied with having fucked any chance of the American people to a semi-decent health care system, have now decide that what's good for the United States of Ass is also good for the rest of the world so now it's time to attack Canada and the UK and the rest of the European Union and if the verbal attacks don't work...hell, let's bomb the hell outta there!  Warfare not healthcare should be the motto of the next war!

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