As Ontario moves to allow private clinics to perform more surgeries, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he'll be watching to ensure the principles of Canada's universal public system are respected. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for Trudeau to make provinces protecting the public system a condition of any future increase to the federal health transfer.
that will see some for-profit community surgical and diagnostic centres take on certain additional surgeries and other medical procedures with the aim of reducing the provinces' surgical backlogs resulting in considerable wait times for patients.
"Whether we're talking about more access to primary care doctors and teams, whether it's quicker access to mental health supports, whether it's reducing the surgery backlog. There are lots of things that we're working on with the provinces," Trudeau said.
The premiers are asking for Ottawa to boost transfers to 35 per cent up from the current 22 per cent of coverage for health-care costs, while Trudeau has insisted that any increase in federal funds would have to come withSingh also raised concerns over the potential impact on care and attempts to upsell patients "when profits are the priority."
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