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Originally Posted by Hanni
Secondly, this is a great example of how convoluted our system, specifically the constitution, is. IMO provinces were given far to much power from the start. Either that or the current funding model for the system is poor. I don't think the feds should be collecting taxes to then be redistributed back to the provinces for things like health care. That's not to say health care shouldn't universally funded, but that the federal government is in many cases just a funding agency with overall, general control, but the specifics are left up to the provinces. I think the system would be better off if the funder was much closer to the front line system. To many levels of government and bureaucracy end up causing more road blocks in the system as a whole.
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Universal health care is unconstitutional though. The federal government isn't allowed control of health care but they got around it by offering to pay for a portion of it if the provinces agreed to their conditions. Effectively they are overtaxing the provinces and the giving the money back with strings attached.