Premiers should take responsibility for their overspending and poor outcomes by freeing themselves from the Canada Health Act
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Premier Doug Ford also announced that his government would table legislation to allow health-care workers licensed elsewhere in the country to
None of these are bad ideas — training and recruiting new doctors and nurses is especially critical if this country hopes to even maintain current levels of service given the Liberals’ high immigration targets — but they hardly represent the type of outside-the-box thinking that will put our health system on a sustainable path.Article content
In fact, one of the reasons why provincial health budgets have ballooned so much is because they’ve steadily increased the number of services paid for or subsidized by the taxpayer. These pressures will only increase when the federal government introduces pharmacare and expands its socialized dental program.
One way to address that problem would be for Ottawa to replace the CHT with a transfer of tax points to the provinces, aswritten by Peter Nicholson, a former adviser to Paul Martin, for the University of Saskatchewan’s Graduate School of Public Policy recommends. This would entail reducing federal taxes by a certain amount and allowing the provinces to raise them without increasing Canadians’ overall tax burden.
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