The crumbling Nova Scotia health-care system was offered a federal shot of adrenaline Tuesday, a proposal of $46.2 billion in new funding over a 10-year ...
Halifax Infirmary’s hybrid operating room. - HandoutThe crumbling Nova Scotia health-care system was offered a federal shot of adrenaline Tuesday, a proposal of $46.2 billion in new funding over a 10-year period.
For Nova Scotia, the proposal will mean $154 million of new health spending in its 2023-24 budget that will be presented in the spring and more than one billion additional dollars over the 10-year span of the proposed agreement. Hawker said decisions about where the bilateral portion would be best spent should come from provincial governments that are more closely connected with the physicians and other health-care providers on the front lines.
In an emailed statement Wednesday, the Nova Scotia premier’s office said the government is pleased that the federal government has finally heard the calls for increased funding and is “willing to put more money on the table to help us build a health system that delivers care for Nova Scotians where and when they need it.”
Hawker said it’s “essential that the federal payments take into consideration the unique challenges” each province or territory faces. “Improving primary care access is top of mind for many Nova Scotians. The important thing to consider as well is that on top of the roughly 13 per cent of Nova Scotians who don’t have access to any family doctor, those that do often even now don’t have timely access to their doctor. So if you have an urgent health issue, a lot of Nova Scotians aren’t able to access the family doctor that they have in a timely manner.
Turnbull said there is a division of labour between the federal and provincial governments in that health care is a provincial jurisdiction but the federal government has more money and each province has different fiscal capabilities. This alternative, however, could lead to more offerings of private health care, according to federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh who said Wednesday that the prime minister, who in the past supported public health care, has flip-flopped in calling private for-profit care innovative.
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