Unsupported and Unacceptable
With our campaign nearing the six year mark, it looks like we might be closer to achieving the much needed reform to our hospital pay parking problem than ever before. An election call in BC means the public discourse focuses
The fiscal 2023 financial statements are out for the British Columbia Health Authorities and included this year is the first look at hospital pay parking incomes following the temporary “free parking” measures put in place during the pandemic. Although revenues
What a disaster. I figured the universally-hated, sick patient exploiting, profit driven scam that is hospital pay parking would make a return once the pandemic was downgraded to endemic. However what I didn’t see coming was the way our stressed-out,
The pandemic grinds on and so does “temporary” free hospital parking in BC. As we await the return to normal times, it’s not clear if the campaign will be on the Health Minister’s radar given the shear amount of damage
[DELTA] Hospital stay, why pay? This might explain the unexpected drop in total provincial revenue from the much maligned hospital pay parking scheme. The annual audited financials for BC’s five geographic-based health authorities reported an overall annual decrease of 4.5%
When our campaign first called on the provincial government and health authorities to reform hospital pay parking back in 2018, we laid out what a better system might look like. We also addressed the most obvious option to the current
Press Release For February 4, 2020 —————————————————————————————————————————————— 2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Fraser & Coastal Health Three quarters of all hospital parking violation tickets go unpaid at Fraser Health. [DELTA] Hospital stay, why pay? Evidence from the latest
Press Release For January 21, 2020 —————————————————————————————————————————————— 2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Interior Health Another BC health authority reports high parking ticket payment delinquencies and cancellations. [DELTA] Hospital stay, why pay? Once again British Columbians are learning that
Press Release For January 20, 2020 —————————————————————————————————————————————— 2018-2019 Hospital Parking Lot Violation Statistics – Island Health A first in Canadian history; revenue figures and parking violation statistics reveal how hospital patients and their supporters are further exploited for private enterprise
Perhaps our droning on about hospital pay parking in BC needing reform has finally sunk in. The November 23, 2019 NDP convention in Victoria placed a resolution on the hated public policy early in the schedule of voting. The unanimous
