If Doug Ford really wants to fix health care, he needs to stop blaming Ottawa. Canada’s premiers complain that Ottawa isn’t living up to its word on health-care funding, but that is a half-truth by any measure. Opinion by reggcohn
Doug Ford and his fellow premiers claim they’ve found the cure for what ails health care:
Over time, the war of words never changes, regardless of the realities on the ground or the party in power: cash flow from another level of government is portrayed as the panacea for the pandemic, the solution to every problem, the answer to every question about our collective health. To be sure, upon the birth of medicare more than a half-century ago, Ottawa committed to cost-sharing. But what started with the federal government shovelling cash without question to provincial counterparts quickly led to complaints from both sides about constraints and commitments.
The history of medicare doesn’t quite bear that out. In reality, Ottawa’s overall share is closer to one-third of the bill.
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