Opinion: Canada needs private health care — via fpcomment
companies would provide the opportunity to allay these concerns through the purchase of insurance.
Poor Canadians might not be able to afford such premiums. The government could help them using general welfare programs. A more targeted approach would be to create a publicly owned non-profit insurance company authorized to provide health insurance for the poor. The funds needed for this would come from taxes, which fall heavily on higher-income Canadians, which means current income equalization efforts would continue. A publicly owned company along these lines exists in Germany.
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