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Trudeau pitched family doctors for everyone. But B.C. already tried that and failed (PHC, Dr. Rita McCraken)

Dr. Rita McCracken, left, with a patient at a nursing home where she works. McCracken wants the province to provide more team-based care for patients. (Providence Health Care)
Dr. Rita McCracken, left, with a patient at a nursing home where she works. McCracken wants the province to provide more team-based care for patients. (Providence Health Care)

A campaign promise by federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau about making sure all Canadians have access to a family doctor might feel a little bit like déjà vu in British Columbia.

A key platform for the B.C. Liberals in 2010 — which they doubled down on in 2013 — was that everyone who wanted a family doctor would be able to have one by 2015; a program remembered as A GP for Me.

Now, many in the healthcare industry, like family physician Dr. Rita McCracken, are wondering how such a complex problem could work on a federal level when it failed provincially.

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