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Health care transformation is needed next
Monday, February 13th, 2023
… while [the provinces] have their hands extended to Ottawa. A majority of them are in surplus, or can see a surplus just over the horizon, but the provincial share of health funding has barely kept up with pandemic-era inflation… [Ford’s] Progressive Conservative government will have $12.5 billion in “excess funds” available over the next three years and is shortchanging health care by $5 billion.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Steps to a First Class Canadian Health Information System
Saturday, February 11th, 2023
1st… all parties benefit from better data… 2nd… identify the current data shortcomings… a collaborative task between levels of government… 3rd, the federal government should agree to pay for the incremental costs of the new system… 4th… with StatsCan, CIHI, and others, senior levels of government should establish protocols for the analysis and distribution of the improved health information… [and] 5th, some issues will need Canada-wide policy development
Tags: Health, mental Health, standard of living
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Centralized wait-lists work. So why isn’t Canada using them in health care across the country?
Friday, February 10th, 2023
Of course wait-list management isn’t all we need. At its best, it simply taps the potential of underutilized capacity in hospitals. We also need to stanch the hemorrhage of doctors and nurses out of publicly-funded care, and need a better spectrum of care to get people into and out of hospital more quickly. And we need more focus on keeping people out of hospital in the first place… It means better primary care through more interdisciplinary teams.
Tags: budget, Health, 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.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, standard of living
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Five things to know about health-care talks Tuesday between Trudeau, premiers
Monday, February 6th, 2023
… some sort of federal health transfer dates from 1957, when Ottawa offered 50-50 funding for health care to provinces that agreed to provide public hospital services based on national standards. It has evolved and changed at least five times since then, including splitting the federal share between cash and a transfer of tax points — when the federal government cut its income tax rates and the provinces could raise their own in exchange.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, Seniors, standard of living
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Health811: Get connected to health care 24/7
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
Health811 is a free, secure and confidential service that Ontarians can call or access online 24 hours a day, seven days a week to receive health advice from qualified health professionals, such as registered nurses, locate local health services and find trusted health information… Health811 is for non-urgent health questions and concerns only and is not a substitution for 911, which should still be used for a medical emergency. This service is also not a replacement for regular touchpoints with health care providers.
Tags: Health, mental Health
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How Ottawa can help fix health care: first, send less money
Friday, January 27th, 2023
When one level of government is raising the money, while another spends it, it makes it hard for the public to know who to hold to account for any of the system’s ills. That, too, dulls any lingering incentive for reform… without Ottawa to share the blame for underperformance, provincial governments would have a stronger incentive to organize the delivery of health care so as to achieve greater quality and public satisfaction per dollar spent.”
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, tax
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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.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation
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Real health innovation means investing where health begins
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
According to health science, federal Liberal investments in child care, housing, poverty reduction, and climate action ARE investments in health. Federal leadership has been necessary because provinces have been retreating from investing in the social conditions that shape health and well-being. Any additional federal transfers for health ought to encourage provinces to achieve a better balance in their social and medical spending in order to promote health.
Tags: economy, Health, ideology, standard of living
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