Atlantic Canada needs health care funding based on need, not population: Green Party
Premiers across the country are set to meet with Trudeau in February to negotiate changes to the Canada Health Transfer. They want to see Ottawa cover 35 per cent of health-care costs across the country, up from the current 22 per cent.Several private surgical centres in Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic region now receive funding from provincial governments to provide knee, hip and other surgeries as a way to ease backlogs.
“It is a slippery slope … This will open a much bigger door to privatization, and actual corporatization of our health-care system by large companies from outside the province.”May said the Canada Health Act was specifically brought in to eliminate for-profit health care. But that law, she added, is being eroded by governments in New Brunswick and Ontario.
“Because guess what? You have to make a profit,” she said. “Money gets taken out of the health-care system to make that profit.”Canada, she said, is uniquely vulnerable compared with other universal, single-payer health-care systems in the world because of its trade deals with the United States. “If we create a for-profit health-care sector, we will face trade challenges,” May said. “We cannot allow an inch of privatization to undermine our single-payer, universal public health-care system.”
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