The Liberals do no harm, but not much else, with their health care funding proposal
First, do no harm. That medical maxim is the best that can be said of the Trudeau Liberals’ proposed increases to federal health care funding.
If implemented in the coming year, such a move would send the health transfer soaring to $77.4-billion, an increase of 56 per cent. By the end of this decade, the transfer would jump to more than $100-billion. Such an increase would drain federal coffers and create an unacceptable imbalance between who was spending health care dollars – the provinces – and who was footing the bill, Ottawa.
That rather undercuts the cry from the provinces that Ottawa is beggaring the health care system. Still, this week’s announcement is far less sweeping than the Liberals would have Canadians believe. So, the Liberals have committed not very much in the way of funds, and Canadians can expect not very much in the way of change to an overstretched health care system.
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