{"id":286,"date":"2019-06-03T11:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/?p=286"},"modified":"2020-08-18T00:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T00:25:31","slug":"out-of-province-health-care-experts-out-to-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/out-of-province-health-care-experts-out-to-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Out-of-province health care experts out to lunch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourhealthcantwait.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">healthcare freedom<\/a>\u00a0case continues. Just as the Crown&#8217;s lawyers have used delay tactics to waste the time of the patient plaintiffs\u2014and the money of taxpayers\u2014these last few years, the Crown wasted more time this last week by bringing in experts who proceeded to admit to the Court that they were in fact\u00a0<em>not<\/em>\u00a0experts on BC&#8217;s healthcare system or on the\u00a0<em>Medicare Protection Act<\/em>\u00a0being challenged in this case.<\/p>\n<p>This is appallingly wasteful behaviour for the Government of British Columbia in a case about patients left suffering on waiting lists, to say the least. This is especially the case when it is considered with their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/release-bc-government-opposes-financial-transparency-while-seeking-to-present-secret-evidence-to-the-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other efforts<\/a>\u00a0to hide their costs of this marathon legal process.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Ian Mulgrew&#8217;s latest article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vancouversun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/ian-mulgrew-out-of-province-health-care-experts-out-to-lunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our\u00a0healthcare freedom\u00a0case continues. Just as the Crown&#8217;s lawyers have used delay tactics to waste the time of the patient plaintiffs\u2014and the money of taxpayers\u2014these last few years, the Crown wasted more time this last week by bringing in experts who proceeded to admit to the Court that they were in fact\u00a0not\u00a0experts on BC&#8217;s healthcare system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theccf.ca\/yourhealthcantwait\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}