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BC’s healthcare administrative costs have risen 270% since 2017, reaching $3.8 billion. Every party is promising efficiency. Only one is asking whether the money is going to the right places entirely. Here’s what the evidence says.

Japan has the world’s oldest population and some of the world’s lowest long-term care costs relative to need. Its community prevention model has been studied for decades. Here’s what BC should take from it.

By 2036, nearly one in four British Columbians will be over 65 years old. The number of seniors aged 75 and older requiring the intensity of care provided in a long-term care home is projected to grow from approximately 35,000 today to 55,000 within the next decade. The waitlist for publicly subsidized long-term care has tripled since 2016. Average wait time: 290 days. This is not a coming crisis. It is a current one that is accelerating. The demographic trajectory was entirely predictable....