That is the claim by the British Columbia Health Minister, as his department issues memo after memo, to the various health agencies in the province, to cut their budgets.  Apparently the Minister is under the impression that Administrative Costs for various agencies, should be no more than 10%, which is a nice lofty goal.

“What Vancouver Coastal is doing is absolutely correct. They are saying to contract service providers that we are not going to fund administration and overhead costs beyond 10 per cent,” Falcon told the House. ( CBC News )

An interesting claim, really that the Minister would expect agencies that provide help, would have such a low administration cost. I mean what is the administration cost for the Royal Jubilee Hospital? Is it under his TEN PER CENT threshold?

Personally, I happen to agree that way too much money is being spent on Administration, such as the salaries for people like the head of VIHA here, but to expect them to cut their salaries, and not staff, is like expecting Stephen Harper to embrace same sex marriage, and the rights of anyone who is different.  IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN.

Funny thing about this too, is that in order to be a registered charity, the administration costs cannot exceed 40%.  Yet here is the health minister, saying that agencies who provide health, have to be under 10%.   So let me see, raising money to send food relief to Africa can have administration costs 4 times higher than if they provide services for the sick at home?