Opinion Martin Regg Cohn: Think more money will fix our health crisis? Think again
to health care — 12.9 per cent of GDP — than other Western industrialized countries in 2020. Our counterparts deliver universal health care with better outcomes and lower spending — notably New Zealand , Australia and other comparable countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, the U.K. and France.
It’s a safe bet most people’s eyes glaze over when they hear the premiers and the PM trade accusations about who owes what to whom. They understand, intuitively, that it’s a false fight. They kept claiming that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his predecessors had reduced cash transfers, conveniently forgetting that Ottawa long ago handed over more lucrative “tax room” to them. By reducing federal taxation levels, Ottawa made room for the provinces to siphon off those revenues directly into their own treasuries.
All that said, Trudeau has now sweetened the pot with extra cash to take account of the strain from COVID-19 and surgical backlogs. The premiers have breathed a collective sigh of relief about getting an additionalIt’s far less than they demanded, but they’re not about to look a gift horse in the mouth. And so the predictable political confrontation has abated for the moment.
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