‘Abuse is possible’ with B.C. nurses’ unlimited massage benefits: $31 million in 2017

The B.C. Nurses Union is investigating how one nurse’s family managed to use $174,000 in massage therapy benefits over the course of a year through the taxpayer-funded extended benefits plan.
This amid a raging controversy triggered by news that public health care employers spent $31 million in nurses’ massage therapy costs in 2017, a 900-per-cent increase from 2008.
Unlike most other public and private employees, nurses do not have a limit on the number of massages they and their fa