This system deteriorated when the matching money dependent on the broad conditions — including no fees for necessary care — gradually disappeared. Here is a health care to-do list for the federal government. Opinion by Pat Armstrong & Hugh Armstrong
The major question in the federal/provincial/territorial debate on health care funding should not be onthese conditions should be. The federal government should set conditions on federal funding, with funding withheld or returned when these conditions are not met.
This system deteriorated when the matching money dependent on the broad conditions — including no fees for necessary care — gradually disappeared, in part due to the obscure transfers of federal tax points in place of some of the federal money.1. Require each province and territory to have a plan for its funding. “Just give us the money” is not a plan and each jurisdiction claiming it knows best should be embarrassing, given the state of their services today.
2. Establish a more effective structure for provinces and territories to share promising practices and scale them up to the national level where appropriate. We worry about licencing barriers for health care providers educated in other countries while each Canadian jurisdiction sets its own regulations that limit movement across the country, to name just one example of internal inefficiencies. As the Hon.
4. Understand that health care is not a business like the rest. It is about people who need and people who provide care, doing so on the basis of their acquired skill and experience. Public services should not be organized on the principles of for-profit services but rather should recognize the specificity of care and of our shared responsibility as well as our shared benefits.
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