We all know our public health care system urgently needs to be improved. Patients are facing emergency room closures, longer wait times for surgery and a shortage of doctors. Health care workers are struggling with fewer resources, heavier workloads, and more risks to their health and safety.
Privatization is not the solution to underfunding. It brings higher costs, lower quality, and favours wealthy patients over everyone else. Instead, improvements can and must be made within our public and universal health care system.
Right now, the federal government isn’t paying its fair share. And they’re not ensuring that transfer funds are directed to the public system only. Public dollars in the form of the Canada health transfer payments are flowing out of the public system and into private clinics and service providers.
Putting more federal funding into public health care is a smart investment. Better, universal coverage creates better outcomes for everyone.
Learn more about how increased and earmarked funding is a public solution to the health care crisis.
