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User fees and higher taxes won’t solve health crisis: coalition ‘Illness is not something we can tax’
Saturday, August 28th, 2010
August 24, 2010
The Canadian Medical Association’s annual report card on health released yesterday is biased toward user fees as a solution to rising costs, says a provincial coalition of health advocates… So who is actually in favour of user fees in the CMA poll? The relatively young, healthy and wealthy, Rancourt said: “They are 35 to 55 years old, with a high income of more than $100,000, healthy and with pension plans. The perfect profile of someone willing to pay user fees.”.. What about pregnant women, those with childhood illnesses, cancer and chronic diseases like diabetes that need close monitoring in clinics and hospitals?
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