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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's a pie right? You have this much funding and right now, governments choose to put into medicare and exclude pharmacare (let's use these terms to keep it simple). The federal government in increasing that to include birth control and diabetes medication, about 40 billion per year. Alberta wants the money but not the program.
Another option is to raise taxes and add more funding obviously. Another option is to put more quotas on doctors and surgeries and shift that money towards expanded pharmacare. I believe a family doctor can charge to see a maximum of 40 patients a day in Alberta? I think BC has no limit but measures on time spent? Anyways, what if this was lowered to like 20 so that the other half could be used to fund pharmacare. We have a family doctor shortage already so the system is already very very stretched. There's just not enough money in the system.
Alberta UCP believe that two-tiered healthcare solves this. What if only the lower tier got doctor and pharmacare and the upper tier has to pay for everything? That's up for debate.
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If that's the case, why not bypass the messyness of that system and just have progressive taxation, so those that make more, pay more. It's a wild thought, I know.
But you speak of increasing costs, and I'd invite anyone who cares to read through the report, as this work has all been done.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-cana...al-report.html