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The answer is clear: we can’t afford privatized health care
Thursday, August 24th, 2023
… lots of other countries have a blended system. In fact, so does Canada. But when we look deeper, we see that we spend less on our public health system — and more out-of-pocket and privately than most of our peers. As a share of all health spending, Canada allocates 75 per cent as public investment. How does that compare? Canada is a standout Scrooge.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Health Coalition wants $3.5 Billion in Budget for Pharmacare
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
If accepted, the government would fulfill a key recommendation of the 2019 Final Report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare, led by Dr. Eric Hoskins, which estimated that it will cost an additional $3.5 billion to launch national pharmacare starting with universal coverage for essential medicines. Here are the coalition’s four recommendations…
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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Canadians deserve better than fake Pharmacare
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023
A single-payer system can use its bargaining power to negotiate better prices and reduce costs… A fill-the-gaps approach is a short-sighted Band-Aid on a system that is bleeding out. It may appear to have lower upfront costs by only covering those who are uninsured, but it is less efficient when factoring in the administrative costs of verifying eligibility… A single-payer approach to Pharmacare is fair for all.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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97 per cent of Canadians have drug coverage and other lies drug manufactures are pushing
Monday, July 31st, 2023
In reality, millions of Canadians are uninsured for the medicines they need… Those lucky enough to have coverage often still face sizable deductibles and copayments… one in 10 Canadians skips prescriptions because of out-of-pocket costs. This makes patients sicker and generates at least $1 billion annually in preventable demand for medical and hospital care… it is high-cost medicines that are putting workplace health benefits at risk.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, pharmaceutical, privatization, standard of living
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Canada Child Benefit hailed for reducing poverty, as families get boosted payments
Friday, July 21st, 2023
In 2021, 7.4 per cent of Canadians lived in poverty, down from 12.9 per cent in 2016 when the benefit came into place… the “intensity” of poverty was also reduced… “But for those in deeper poverty, the benefit probably isn’t yet big enough to lift them up and over the [low income threshold].”
Tags: featured, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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A crisis of neglect: How society can help those with mental illness
Tuesday, July 18th, 2023
‘If you really want to make a difference, stop thinking about diagnosis and symptoms, start thinking about recovery… it’s people, place, and purpose. Social support, a decent environment with housing and food and things that help people to prosper, and people will have to have something to live for.’
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty
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While Ford pampers spa users, our school kids fend for themselves
Thursday, July 13th, 2023
The government’s miserly approach to funding our children’s education seems curious in such a rich province… The government is actually swimming in money — even as it hollows out key public programs, underfunding schools, shutting down hospital emergency wards and doing nothing for the homeless beyond allowing developers to build ever more condos that are quickly sold to high-income buyers… The notion that we can’t afford a strong public sector has always been a scam.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, homelessness, privatization, standard of living
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An Unparalleled and Urgent Task Faces Premiers Next Week
Friday, July 7th, 2023
At the top of the list is helping the 6.5 million people without access to primary care… Equally urgent is the need to beef up home and community care to make it possible for our rapidly aging population to age both well and where they want to, whether in their own homes or in a community setting. These actions on primary and senior care would ease the pressure on beleaguered hospitals and their emergency rooms.
Tags: featured, Health, jurisdiction, standard of living
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The criminalization of drugs creates more crime than it prevents
Sunday, June 25th, 2023
Illegal drug use is, always has been, and always will be a public health issue. Legal drugs are consumed to get through life — or simply escape life’s despair. Users inevitably end up addicted. This is a public health issue and instead of treating it as such, we waste incalculable millions trying to treat it as a criminal issue. So why do we not scrap the whole insane criminalization strategy and decriminalize all drugs? Profits.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, Health, ideology, pharmaceutical
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It’s time to abolish the Catholic school system in Ontario
Thursday, June 1st, 2023
The demographic and political imperatives that required a separate system no longer exist. The system continues to exist because of a powerful lobby, entrenched interests, and inertia… it would take only Ontario and the federal government to do so. The legal path to ending public denominational funding is much easier than you think. There would be court challenges and protests, but the separate-system backers would lose.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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