B.C. election comes at pivotal moment for health care: workers [Video]

All three B.C. political parties are pledging to expand health care, while workers on the front lines say whoever forms the next government must match funding and staffing to what they are proposing.

Polls going into the last week of the campaign show that health care is the second most important issue for voters behind the cost of living and ahead of housing affordability and availability.

Health-care workers say they don’t want the next government to lose any momentum over solutions.

“We’ve … seen really divergent views on what the future of health care in our province should look like,” said Devon Mitchell, a Vancouver emergency room physician who also advocates for the public health-care system through Canadian Doctors for Medicare.

“That’s also why I think it’s also a very consequential election for B.C.”

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