Posts Tagged ‘budget’
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Our health-care system is broken. More of the same won’t fix it
Monday, January 16th, 2023
In fact, Canadian medicare is more costly than ever, and more expensive than in other countries with universal health care, yet less responsive to patient needs. What’s the remedy? … medicare has long relied on private operators who take payment from the government – not the patient – to deliver those services… voters will tire of the ideological rigidity that conflates medicare’s commendable values with a system that doesn’t always deliver measurable value for money.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Public safety comes from curbing violence, not just reacting to it
Monday, January 9th, 2023
Smart investment in tackling the root causes of violence reduces the need for police responses after the fact… It is time to get upstream of the emergencies. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but also because it will alleviate the need for annual increases to policing that take away from so many other budget priorities.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health
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What the rest of the country can learn from Ontario’s family doctor payment model
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
The Canadian Medical Association has named “expanding team-based care” as one of its top recommendations for solving the country’s health care crisis… The most important lesson of Ontario’s primary-care reforms… is this: if a government is going to change the way it pays family doctors, and pay them more in the process, it needs to put clear and enforceable rules in its physician services agreement.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction
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10 ways to fix Canada’s health care system right now
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
Canada’s health care system requires major reform and possibly radical solutions. Here are 10 solutions to these problems that might be achieved without having to resort to increased privatization… In this 10-part series, we will present 10 major problems that commonly arise within the Canadian medicare system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Doug Ford Led Ontario’s Health System Into a ‘State of Crisis’ in 2022
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023
PressProgress has repeatedly shown the efforts of Doug Ford’s government to cut healthcare funding and privatize parts of the system… Despite surging cases and reports of overwhelmed EDs, the Ford government’s 2022 Fall Fiscal Update offered no new healthcare funding… [however] the re-elected Progressive Conservatives pledged to help private healthcare companies find new ‘opportunities’ within the healthcare system.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Here is a health care to-do list for the federal government
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
The major question in the federal/provincial/territorial debate on health care funding should not be on whether there should be conditions but on what these conditions should be… with funding withheld or returned when these conditions are not met… Addressing health care means… moving on to how can we build a public health-care system that works across the country and for our populations in all their diversity.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Federal healthcare funding should have strings attached
Saturday, December 17th, 2022
Simply dumping health care dollars in provincial capitals is not a solution. Tossing money at Doug Ford, who has chosen license rebates and gas tax cuts (extended for another year) over more health spending is a particularly bad idea. It would offer a bandage when triage is required. Without a strategy and targets, there would be no assurance the extra federal funds would be going to healthcare…
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction
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Financing Employment Insurance Reform: Finding the Right Balance
Friday, December 16th, 2022
… the federal government is facing pressures to avoid increasing EI premiums as many businesses are still recovering from the pandemic and are likely to face another economic downturn. And while some have called for the federal government to contribute financially to the program to limit premium increases, others have expressed concern about burdening taxpayers and adding to the federal debt.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax
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Interpreting the data: Key takeaways from Welfare in Canada, 2021
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The data in Welfare in Canada, 2021 reveal five main findings: Welfare incomes were deeply inadequate across Canada: – All households in every province lived in poverty, and the large majority lived in deep poverty… Most jurisdictions did not make substantive increases to already inadequate social assistance benefits… Total welfare incomes increased in a limited number of cases. In most instances, higher inflation in 2021 negated their positive impact.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living
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A prescription to ease the emergency in Canada’s ERs
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Opening more doors for doctors trained elsewhere, Canadian or otherwise, is where Ottawa can focus any new dollars it commits, in co-operation with the provinces. That money should come with strings attached by government – to steer new doctors to family practices in underserved areas… We don’t know where family doctors are working, how they’re working, and where the shortages are. Collecting and collating that information… is a necessary first step.
Tags: budget, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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