Research Quest – Alternative Federal Budget
After
skimming the issues covered in the document of the Alternative Federal Budget,
the topics within Health Care caught my attention. As I am also writing my paper on the issues
found within the health care and medicare issues in Canada.
The health
care in Canada is put together quite well compared to many other
countries. In the Alternative Federal
Budget, it states that the want to increase public share of total health
expenditures and the federal contributions to provinces towards health
care. One way to increase this is to
expand on medicare. As it is proven the
hospitals in Canada continue to be overcrowded and this causes many problems as
well as unhappy patients. A problem any
provinces are coming to is that they are putting money towards the
privatization of health care rather than publicly funded. The AFB states that this should not be the
case in the future to lower the costs and to better manage what we spend.
As it comes
to Pharmacare, something I find myself quite interested in, the AFB mentions to
create a National Pharmacare Program to maintain the costs spent on
prescription drugs. By doing this they
believe that the costs will lower significantly because there will be no
controversy between private companies.
Working in a pharmacy, this is a huge issue and something that should be
taken care of.
There are
several other statements mentioned in the AFB about health care, however these
two where the ones that stood out to me.
Having a higher quality medicare and health care will benefit our
country without a doubt. It is something
that we will always have to deal with it and if we can find the best way to economically
and practically deal with it, this will benefit everyone in the long run.
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