John,
Do you know what the biggest lie in Canadian politics
is?
It’s that we have this magical healthcare system
that is central to our national identity.
I’ve often
heard Canada described as “like America but with free
healthcare”.
It is a total myth that Canada has
some great medical system which can only be preserved by the political
left.
In reality, we have a crumbling, dysfunctional
system which is being made MUCH worse by non-stop mass immigration
which is totally overwhelming it.
Here are the
facts:
Canadian healthcare is not free. We
all pay for it with our unreasonably high taxes. In fact,
Canada has the fourth highest per capita healthcare
costs amongst developed countries.
Canadian
healthcare is not the best. Nowhere close. Despite being among the
most expensive, most international ratings have us around 30th
in the world, lagging behind just about every developed
country.
Mass immigration over recent years has
completely overwhelmed the system. A significant portion of
newcomers are coming through the family reunification program who are
often older (parents, and grandparents) and more dependent on the
healthcare system. Sometimes they are coming here specifically to take
advantage of our healthcare system despite their families not paying
into it!
Canadian healthcare also has the dubious distinction
of having the worst wait times of any developed country. This year
around 17,000 people died while waiting for medical
care.
Does that sound like a developed
country to you, John?
And yet, if anyone calls for
significant and much needed reforms to our healthcare system, leftists
start foaming at the mouth and hurling accusations about
“American-style healthcare”.
As if our healthcare
system is some sort of untouchable sacred cow!
It's
time to look to other countries, find what works elsewhere, and make
major reforms here — and believe it or not, we can look to countries
other than America as examples!
We need to learn from
the European countries with superior and more cost efficient
healthcare systems, literally all of which are mixed systems with
public AND private providers for medical care.
Max and
the PPC have been calling for Canada to move to a European-style mixed
system for years now. It is the obvious solution for anyone who has
spent time researching this topic.
Technically,
healthcare is supposed to be 100% provincial jurisdiction. But in
reality the federal government is much too involved.
Provinces
are dependent on the feds for funds (Canada Health Transfer payments)
to pay for their healthcare systems and for decades the federal
government has politicized these transfer payments, holding them
hostage unless provinces meet their demands.
Here’s
the PPC plan to get Ottawa out of the way and fix our healthcare
system:
The PPC doesn’t believe in sacred cows. For us, nothing is off
limits. If there is a problem affecting Canadians, we are going to
step in and solve it.
We don’t have to just accept the
lesser of two evils. We can support policies we actually believe in.
We can demand better policies for our country.
Help me fight for pragmatic solutions like
this with a $13 donation today!
Cheers,
Daniel
Tyrie
PPC Executive Director
P.S.: If you have trouble
finding where you can donate, you can just click this link! https://www.peoplespartystore.com/donations/email/