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There’s universal support for pharmacare, finds new poll
Thursday, April 20th, 2023
87% of Canadians support implementing a national pharmacare program to provide equal access to prescription drugs for everyone in Canada… 86% of people feel the federal government has a responsibility for ensuring everyone in Canada has prescription drug coverage… 79% of people support the federal government taking charge to fund a national pharmacare program.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical
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Ford’s health-care cuts risk lives of society’s most vulnerable
Tuesday, March 28th, 2023
Overnight, the Ford government has turned its back on marginalized people who are uninsured or have lost health cards, and the communities that take care of them… Doctors, nurses and hospitals all agree — the government did the right thing at the start of the pandemic by ensuring no one was denied health care in Ontario. They can do it again by reversing these cruel cuts and making this program permanent.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Federal health minister dings Ontario for private billing
Saturday, March 11th, 2023
Federal health minister Jean-Yves Duclos announced Friday that he will be reducing the Canada Health Transfer to eight provinces, including Ontario, for breaches of federal policy regarding billing patients for medically necessary costs… Further, Duclos signalled that Friday’s announcement will not be the end of the measures the federal government is considering to reinforce the public aspect of Canada’s health-care system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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How much money does Canada’s health system really need?
Friday, March 3rd, 2023
Internationally, Canada spends more per capita on health care than many other OECD countries, but performs very poorly. … other than for long-term care, there is no need for health-care costs to rise dramatically over the coming decades – not if there are appropriate structural reforms and more integrated management.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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The truth (and the costs) behind public payment for private surgeries
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
While the provinces should be applauded for funding more surgical procedures, why restrict new funding solely to private enterprises, when many public hospitals have capacity to provide more surgery with additional funding? There is no compelling business reason, especially if both private and public facilities will be paid at the same rate.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Canada’s vanishing health care crisis
Saturday, February 18th, 2023
Health care spending is actually declining this year on average, once population growth is factored in… Only the three Maritime provinces are planning to boost health care spending faster than the increase in the federal transfer… the contrast between the urgent rhetoric of the premiers and the tepid growth of spending underscores, again, the need to firmly place the responsibility for health care funding on the provinces.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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No Strings Attached: Canada’s health care deal lacks key conditions
Friday, February 17th, 2023
… despite provincial ad campaigns that show destitute doctors and nurses begging for federal funding, the question of who is responsible for the crisis in Canadian health care is not so clear cut. Health care is a provincial jurisdiction and the big provinces are flush with cash. It’s not money stopping them from fixing their systems, it’s political will.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Queen’s Park must pull its weight on health care spending
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
… the FAO says. Under current plans, funding for health care over the next three years will be $5 billion less than what is needed just to maintain existing programs… it now appears that any bilateral deal between Ontario and Canada will require that the province at least maintain current spending levels (presumably adjusted for inflation). That’s not a high bar. Ottawa could do more, especially when it comes to blocking provincial plans to siphon public dollars into private profits.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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A courageous plan required for primary care reform
Monday, February 6th, 2023
… two essential building blocks of the people-centred health reform we favour are timely access to primary care and the use of data. Data is a key tool to empower the users of the system and to support health care workers who need to care for people as they move through the system, from primary care office to hospital to home care and back… Even more than money, we need… Courage to make transformative changes. That starts with the foundation of the health system, which is primary care.
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Premier Doug Ford should explain why he underfunds public health care
Thursday, January 26th, 2023
If Ontario just spent the average of what the other provinces have spent on health care per capita over the past five years, we’d be spending an additional $7.2 billion this year — more than enough to properly pay our beleaguered nurses, lure thousands more nurses to Ontario and bring back into use countless hospital operating rooms all over the province idled by years of budget cuts.
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