Productivity critical to sustain health care
Sunday, January 9th, 2011
January 9, 2011
… research has consistently shown the effect of aging on the overall health-care expenditures is relatively small compared to the impact of inflation… there is almost no information on the outcomes from health care interventions in Canada – and this must change… a small 1.5% productivity improvement per year could make the Canadian health-care system sustainable over the next 25 years.
Tags: budget, Health, standard of living
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CAS cuts kids to survive Funding:
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
December 13, 2010
The cash-strapped local children’s aid society will reduce the number of kids in care by 25% in order to keep its doors open. A deal reached with Queen’s Park ends the threat that funds would dry up early next year at the Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex, which otherwise faces a $4.2 million deficit… The agency will try to take fewer kids into its care by keeping more of them with their families. Once kids are in the agency’s care it will try to find permanent homes for them more quickly, with extended family or adoptive parents.
Tags: budget, child care, youth
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Canada’s poverty picture startling — unless it’s inaccurate
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
July 10, 2010
In the 1990s, the overwhelming majority of welfare dependants in Canada were employable adults. In Ontario and some other provinces, most are now classified as unemployable persons with disabilities… Many of these poor are victims of the cruel policy adopted by the provinces in the 1970s of deinstitutionalizing psychiatric patients without providing them with adequate support in the community.” Alleviating the misery of these neediest of impoverished Canadians will not be easy or inexpensive, but should get top priority…
Tags: disabilities, mental Health, poverty
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NDP urges extended sick benefits
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
June 8, 2010
The federal NDP wants the Conservative government to extend EI benefits to people suffering from chronic or long-term illnesses such as cancer. People already get 15 weeks of EI sick benefits but NDP MP Fin Donnelly says that needs to be extended to 52 weeks and is introducing a private member’s bill to compel the federal government to act… Donnelly said the chronically ill slip into poverty when they fall ill because they can’t afford their bills or mortgages when their EI runs out.
Tags: Health, standard of living
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