A commentary by analysts at the Fraser Institute, a public policy think tank.

Premier David Eby has told British Columbia’s health minister to review the regional health authorities and tackle administrative costs to “focus resources to the front line.” That review is underway.

No doubt there’s some administrative fat to trim, but solving the myriad problems with B.C.’s health-care system requires more than a hiring freeze and the firing of a few C-suite managers.

Intermittent ER closures, hundreds of thousands of British Columbians without a family doctor, and lengthy wait times totalling almost 30 weeks from GP referral to treatment, all point to deeper systemic problems that urgently require meaningful solutions.

Some will argue these problems are the result of chronic underfunding of health care, or perhaps the price we pay for universality. But patients in other developed........

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