A lot of confusion about BC's laboratory testing capabilities and whether we have "private" or "public" labs. BC doesn't have a dual private healthcare system. We have one system, the public one. BC Biomedical Laboratories, LifeLabs - service the public system. #covid19
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Yeah and they deny it all as if the private tests are separate Lifelabs advertises their private antibody tests and others that cost $$$. Smells fishy to me. Testing here is such a joke
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Lifelabs is owned by the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (googled it). It is a monopoly here in BC as far as I know. #bcpoli
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Just checked. Lifelabs controls 85% of the non hospital medical testing market in BC. SWEET DEAL. #bcpoli
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Looks like #DBH has no authority to tell Lifelabs to Jack Up their testing capacity, since it is essentially a private operator. #bcpoli @adriandix @jjhorgan

10:48 PM ยท Jan 18, 2021

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I wonder what LifeLabs is charging per test. In a hospital there is no extra labour cost, people work on salary.
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