GOLDSTEIN: Canada isn’t broken, government is cdnpoli
But we aren’t even having that discussion in Canada because any time it’s raised defenders of the status quo, including the Trudeau government, start ranting about “two-tier American-style health care,” which no one who understands the issue is taking about.
We have too many government bureaucrats running health care and too few family doctors, leaving millions without access to both primary and specialized care, because general practitioners are the gatekeepers to the system.Article content Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is prepared to increase federal funding for health care but first he wants to know how the provinces will spend it because the current template is broken.Article content
But that said, the federal government has a responsibility to tell Canadians how much more of our money it’s prepared to spend on health care and what conditions it will impose on the provinces to receive it..The premiers argue the problems are solely caused by federal underfunding, which isn’t true. It’s also caused by often inefficient and wasteful provincial spending.
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