Health care is our single biggest expense.
What punishment is appropriate for officials who steal from this pool?
The new electronic health monitoring system is running at $222 million to date.
A few months ago, a local doctor billed large amounts to this system and then pleaded to two counts of influence-peddling with government officials.
Dr. Jonathan Burns was sentenced to three years' probation and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. Six other charges against Burns, including fraud and breach of trust, were stayed.
Now, the former assistant deputy minister of health, Ron Danderfer, has pleaded guilty to fraud for accepting "considerations" for himself and his wife in the course of his duties.
His lawyer, of course, says that this kind of thing is the standard in private business. Nice.
The lawyer also whines that Danderfer has already suffered greatly from the attention the case has received in the media.
"It has been extremely trying for him. He's lost his job, he's lost the respect he had in the community, this has taken an amazing toll on him."
Boo effing hoo.
No doubt this thief will be asked to write an essay entitled, "My Bad."
Welcome to the peach-colored Land of No Consequences.
Jules Verne originally wrote about this place over a hundred years ago, but his publishers rejected the manuscript out of hand as being "too fantastical - not a soul on earth would believe that such a place exists."
1 comment:
It seems our provincial government has a case of monkey see, monkey do.
If the Prem and his cronies can get away with it, so what is wrong with his minions dipping into the community pot.
Business as usual in BC.
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