Even with only one visit by a social worker looking in for a few minutes then making the statement “he has transitioned well” eats away at me these people know nothing about Chris or his therapy and yet they would have therapists write recommendations after no real consultation or following the advice of the place we send our injured because we can not treat them here.
A BC resident traveled to HJC to take Chris’ bed once he was forced to give it up and yet our health minister still believes we have places like HJC here in BC but continues to send more of our injured to that slow rehab place in Alberta as he referred to it as.
They are just doing their jobs I hear this all the time, seems like it is the standard cop-out so no one has to answer the tough questions, trouble is they are doing nothing for Chris or his situation or the majority of brain injuries in our province.
I am amazed how people can be in charge of therapy or a rehab program when they do not really understand rehab at all. If they do understand rehab that would mean I have been lied to on several occasions, which I think is a modest statement.
The disregard for the guidance of the HJC just goes to show our government does not understand rehab either or how to put it in place or maybe it is just total disregard for those in need, putting dollars and cents before lives.
I must ask where is ICBC in all of this they are responsible for the auto insurance and the government controls them. The government also controls the health care system and who can and can not access it. The government is also responsible to make the highways and roads we travel safe and secure for our use, we put this trust in them every day we go on the roads to drive, in particular Kevin Falcon (highway minister) when this accident happened, on a highway he was responsible for. Now he is responsible for the health ministry, and not doing any better in that job, in fact he is in a position to hurt a great deal more innocent residents of what we thought was the best province in this country.
The advance in all of this has been taken off the table in support of the health ministry. When asked why they will not help out when they know they are responsible the only response by their lawyer is they need something in return. In return for what, for providing not lifting one finger of help or assistance to a victim of a car they insured. Again another group you have to wonder what a warm and fuzzy evening they spend with their loved ones. ICBC has no defence, no reason to not help as the amount needed to care for Chris for the years to come will add up to ten times the amount they will have to pay.
I ask again where is the human side of the people that work at our Insurance company I hope every day they go home and sit with their families enjoy their company listen to their dreams and future plans then think ahead to all that is possible for their children, all the time knowing they have removed this from Chris and all of his family and all persons with brain injury in this province?
I am sick of begging and fighting for the rights we all deserve maybe it is about time we name the people making these decisions and hold them accountable for their inaction or wasting of resources that have come to be in such short supply. We should be holding the politicians who give lip service to us when we deserve the right to be heard.
It is time the government stopped riding the fence and step in and make the insurance company pay what it owes and stop car accident victims from having to use the limited funds available from our public hospitals and health care system.
To think this government that at one point talked about transparency and openness and now is one of the most backward, self-serving, demeaning governments of the day full of hypocrites and lazy politicians.
Good Night,
Kevin
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