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Canada’s existing healthcare funding model has a fatal flaw
With no new accord, the federal government can focus more on its own pressing health delivery issues, such as improving indigenous and veterans’ health… If the federal government sticks to its guns, what now looks like a failure — the inability to reach a new accord — may, in retrospect, come to be seen as the beginning of a long overdue process of rejuvenating a health system that has not been performing very well in recent years.
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New Brunswick, feds reach separate agreement on health-care funding
New Brunswick has reached its own agreement on health care funding with the federal government. Premier Brian Gallant says the deal includes $230-million in funding over 10 years for health care and programs for seniors… federal officials say they are still… continuing to negotiate with individual provinces and territories – as many as five or six of which appear to be having second thoughts about walking away Monday from the federal offer.
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Ottawa urges provinces to accept offer for more mental-health funding
Federal officials say the phone lines have been burning up since Monday as the reality sinks in that Finance Minister Bill Morneau wasn’t bluffing when he made the offer and advised provincial and territorial health and finance ministers that was as good as it was going to get… Almost immediately after that offer was supposedly unanimously rejected, New Brunswick signalled that it… would try to negotiate a bilateral deal with the federal government.
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Our leaders need to offer Canadians a new vision for health care
Canadians want the principles of the Canada Health Act. They also want different levels of government to work together for their benefit. What Canada needs is a new, long-term vision for health care from our political leaders. We need officials back at the table working out new program designs that motivate and support change, including, but not limited to, priorities related to long-term care, mental health and prescription drugs.
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What you need to know about the Canada Health Transfer
Spending increases have fallen short of inflation and population growth for six straight years… largely as a result of provinces reining in their spending… federal spending makes up only about 23 per cent of provincial health-care budgets… [but] the federal government has offered the provinces $8-billion over 10 years for home care and mental-health care, over and above the Canada Health Transfer.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living
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Groundbreaking MaRS funding initiative takes aim at high blood pressure
In the first health-related social impact bond, or “pay-for-success” model in Canada — and the largest of its kind in the world — investors will fund the upfront costs of a new hypertension prevention program and the Public Health Agency of Canada will pay if it works… the Community Hypertension Prevention Initiative will recruit 7,000 seniors on the verge of developing the disease in Toronto and Vancouver and help them make lifestyle changes aimed at keeping their blood pressure in check without drugs.
Tags: budget, Health, pharmaceutical, standard of living, tax
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It’s time to make home care part of medicare
Medicare’s key limitation… is that it applies only to services offered by doctors and hospitals. It does not apply to home care… Unlike hospital care, such services are usually neither comprehensive nor universal… they are not even portable… In 2016, it makes sense that [the Canada Health Act] be amended to include home care as a core medicare service. Some provinces may disagree. If so, they won’t have to take any extra money that Ottawa puts on offer.
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On health care, strings should come with money
Only the federal government, by applying conditions to investments, can secure national objectives and ensure reasonably comparable health care for all Canadians, wherever in the country they may be, as the Constitution demands… it’s essential that federal money come with strings. Some provinces will gripe, but there can be no meaningful universal health-care otherwise. However, strings should come with money.
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Smart pharmacare strategy an urgent health care priority
There is limited and inconsistent integration of medication use data with physician visits, hospitalizations, or care planning. The result is a poor understanding of the impact pharmaceuticals have on patient outcomes or the value they offer to the health care system… all Canadians want equitable access to effective medications without incurring financial hardship. Yet, increasingly, access is compromised due to ability to pay, employment status, clinical condition or disease, age, ethnic heritage or even one’s postal code.
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Ministers must not leave mental health out of new accord
People have come to recognize that there is no health without mental health… Canadians with anxiety disorders, depression, suicide and substance use are not getting the help they need and the care they deserve… a new agreement must include a stand-alone outcome-oriented investment in mental health… We can’t stand by while another 4,000 Canadians die by suicide this year. We won’t let inaction fail another generation of Canadians.
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