With rising costs concern over wait times for medical procedures and a continual federal-provincial tug-of-war over funding health care continues to be a dominant issue in Canadian federal elections. Here's what the study Canadian federal parties are promising in the 2006 Canadian federal election campaign.
The Liberals are promising a Canada Health Care Guarantee which includes $300 million to change magnitude capacity in teaching hospitals to decrease act times; $50 million to go up act list management; $10 million to Canadian Institutes for Health Research for development of future wait list benchmarks; 10 million for patient-management programs for doctors for wait enumerate management and to help patients navigate the health care system; and $75 million for a Health Care pledge Fund to back up patients with jaunt costs to receive treatment in another province.
The Liberals are promising to invest $100 million over 5 years to carry 1000 new family doctors on be adrift.
The Liberals would also drop nearly $700 million into a Public Health Strategy to reenforce the public health system including support for new vaccine programs and preparedness for infectious diseases.
They ordain work with the provinces to create comprehensive plans for cancer mental illness and heart disease including implementing a $26-million five-year Canadian Strategy for Cancer Control.
The NDP propose a Protection of Public Health Care Act. Through the legislation and agreements with the provinces the NDP would alter shelter long-term federal transfers for health care contingent on a commitment that the money would not be used for a profit-making insurance system covering medically necessary services.
The NDP give investment in long-term care for seniors starting with an expansion of 10,000 units in 2006 to a total of 40,000 new units by 2009.
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