Trudeau offers a Band-Aid for our bleeding health care system
for Canadian seniors than for those between the ages of 15 and 64. An ever-increasing proportion of older Canadians, living longer than ever, will put relentless pressure on the system.
Indeed, Ottawa’s offer includes a lot of talk about sharing data and measuring progress and attaching strings to bilateral agreements on shared priorities. It is silent on experimentation with alternative forms of delivering publicly funded health care services. This amounts to tacit encouragement for the provinces to test the limits of the Canada Health Act. But it is doubtful that this will be enough to fix the system.
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