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Reform, or just better funding?
I feel like both are needed. It seems like healthcare spending increases, but we never have enough providers, and access is decreasing.
FWIW, Ontario has the lowest per capita healthcare spending among the provinces. Maybe due to economies of scale.
Or maybe because we’d prefer to spend our money on reducing taxes for car owners…
Oh fuck off. You car-haters manage to bring that into every issue.
Cars? I don't hate cars. I hate that we're systematically defunding our health care to give people pointless tax breaks so that people will vote for Ford. Does 200$ really compensate anyone for having fewer doctors?
No it doesn't, but then, that's not really an argument to keep nickel-and-diming drivers. I'm all for fair progressive taxation, but it shouldn't be composed of a million government fees that pop up every time you have to deal with the government for any reason. I know Ford got rid of the $200 fee and refunded it for cynical, manipulative reasons, but I'm still glad it's gone, and I have to believe that most people are not stupid enough to be bought by $200.
Ontario is sitting on billions of transfer payments earmarked for healthcare that we're simply not spending. Or at least so I am led to believe by the press and my faulty memory.