Leaders debate: Sterk promises provincial funding for homeopathy
The B.C. Greens have always promoted a holistic approach to health care. And in today's leaders debate, Green Leader Jane Sterk promised provincial funding for homeopathy, which is not currently covered under the B.C. Health Plan.
“The Green party believes in the single payer system and health care should be accessible to everyone in their community," Sterk said. "We would move to community-based care so we have multidisciplinary teams of people that would help people."
That would mean having "the appropriate professional" to deal with patients.
"It might be a nurse practitioner, an RN, a homeopath, a naturopath physician, and this would all be funded within the public health-care system on a prevention model," Sterk said. "We would adequately fund our acute and hospital-care system, but transition most of the money into prevention and health promotion so we keep people healthy. And the costs will go down over time.”
She didn't elaborate in the debate on whether or not the health authorities would employ homeopaths or if they would work on a fee-for-service system, which is how most physicians are paid in B.C.
Comments
10 Comments
Kelly Clowers
May 4, 2009 at 1:00pm
"Sterk promises provincial funding for homeopathy"
Idiots
Char
May 4, 2009 at 7:42pm
Pardon me Kelly. Jane spoke the most eloquently and with the most depth of understanding of the issues surrounding health care. I want to live in a province governed by an individual that is leads with compassion, intelligence and common sense. That's Jane in every sense of those words.
zeroedout
May 5, 2009 at 4:16am
The only problem with Jane is her support of homeopathy. Anyone with even the most basic understanding of chemistry/biology will tell you that most things, diluted like crazy can't have an effect on the body. How is a substance that causes effects similar to the symptoms of the disease gonna stop the disease? There alternative medicines out there which make sense to use, not homeopathy.
Pat
May 5, 2009 at 7:08am
I wish I still lived in B.C. so I could vote in the Greens !
Kudos to them for supporting homeopathy !!
shinny rocks too!
May 5, 2009 at 11:22am
Yeah, I want them shinny colors and reflexology, reiki, biofeedback, and aromatherapy. And don't forget them poor shamans! The sky is the limit!
Kat
May 5, 2009 at 12:01pm
to zeroedout; Have you ever heard of nano-technology or quantym physics. Similary principles have been used in medicine for milleniums (Ayuverdic).
As a practicing Homeopaths I have seen miraculous changes in babies and animals, that do not have prejudice, as well as in many adults that understand the principle of this energetic medicine.
Elena Cecchetto
May 8, 2009 at 10:37am
Those who don't yet understand the power of homeopathic medicine are still too closed minded to even try it. What kind of scientific mind would not even experiment with something before dismissing it?
Phys2
May 11, 2009 at 5:13pm
Sorry, gang. I'm a physicist, and I can tell you definitively and conclusively that quantum mechanics and homeopathy don't correlate, no matter what the bleep you may think. And yes, the experiments HAVE been done, and homeopathy failed every time. It's the homeopaths who refuse to accept the evidence, not the other way around.
And although I am a federal Green Party member and supporter, I won't vote for them provincially until this is removed from the platform. Homeopathy is fraudulent, dangerous (because it may supplant real therapies), and scientifically impossible.
We should, instead, have a platform that removes homeopathic remedies from drugstores and prosecutes practitioners under fraud laws.
Nemesis
May 11, 2009 at 10:08pm
Kat, no, nothing similar. It's completely different. If you can't even SPELL 'quantum' ... well ....
anonymous
Jun 25, 2009 at 8:19pm
As amusing as the idea is, homeopathy is quackery and should not be funded.