British Columbia government removes many bureaucratic stumbling blocks and welcomes hundreds of health care workers to the province.

"We needed to get out of the red state, or that thought process anyway, to feel safe and move forward," she said. 

Her decision comes as B.C. and other Canadian provinces are looking to capitalize on concerns about the United States to attract new health-care professionals to move north. British Columbia says it has seen a 127 per cent increase in applications from the U.S. since it launched a new streamlined system for American nurses to apply to relocate earlier this year.

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B.C. says nursing applications have more than doubled since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Besides the warmth social atmosphere, American health care professionals will notice immediately that they do not have to submit their diagnostic results to an insurance company for approval before proceeding with treatment.

I have numerous family members in health care and they report that the process is insulting to their professionalism and draining on their mental health.

A relative closed his clinic, frustrated with the HMO process. The coup de grace was having an insurance employee tell him he couldn't admit a patient to the hospital for further testing.