Canada
Department of Finance
February 7, 2005
Minister of Finance Tables Legislation to Implement 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care
Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale today tabled legislation in the House of Commons to implement the Government of Canada’s 10-Year Plan to Strengthen
Health Care, which was signed by all 14 first ministers at their September 2004 meeting.
“This plan illustrates very clearly how all Canadians benefit when governments work together in common purpose,” stated Minister Goodale. “The legislation to implement this historic agreement is a priority for the Government.”
http://www.fin.gc.ca/news05/05-011e.html
Canada’s 10-year plan:
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news.asp?id=260
Comment: No health care system will be free of problems. But Canada demonstrates that a publicly administered and publicly financed program is capable of responding to its problems. In contrast, in the United States, our costs are out of control while our problems grow much worse. Why do we continue to tolerate our outrageously expensive and highly dysfunctional system?