Monday, 25 March 2013


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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