No patient care should be affected by their ability to pay
That's literally the underlying concept behind the Canadia medical system.
The problem has been successive governments chipping away at the ability to live up to those noble ideals.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
120 points (98.4% liked)
Canada
11803 readers
660 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Related Communities
🍁 Meta
🗺️ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
🏙️ Cities / Local Communities
- Anmore (BC)
- Burnaby (BC)
- Calgary (AB)
- Comox Valley (BC)
- Edmonton (AB)
- East Gwillimbury (ON)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Guelph (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kingston (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Niagara Falls (ON)
- Niagara-on-the-Lake (ON)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Sarnia (ON)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Squamish (BC)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Whistler (BC)
- Windsor (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
Sorted alphabetically by city name.
🏒 Sports
Baseball
Basketball
Curling
Hockey
- Main: c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- Montréal Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Soccer
- Main: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
💻 Schools / Universities
- BC | UBC (U of British Columbia)
- BC | SFU (Simon Fraser U)
- BC | VIU (Vancouver Island U)
- BC | TWU (Trinity Western U)
- ON | UofT (U of Toronto)
- ON | UWO (U of Western Ontario)
- ON | UWaterloo (U of Waterloo)
- ON | UofG (U of Guelph)
- ON | OTU (Ontario Tech U)
- QC | McGill (McGill U)
Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.
💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales
- Personal Finance Canada
- Buy Canadian
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Canadian Skincare
- Churning Canada
- Quebec Finance
- Canada Grown Business
🗣️ Politics
- General:
- Federal Parties (alphabetical):
- By Province (alphabetical):
🍁 Social / Culture
- Ask a Canadian
- Bières Québec
- Canada Francais
- Canadian Gaming
- EhVideos (Canadian video media)
- First Nations
- First Nations Languages
- Indigenous
- Inuit
- Logiciels libres au Québec
- Maple Music (music)
Rules
- Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
The problem has been successive governments chipping away
Successive provincial governments chipping away ...
It's the provinces that direct how healthcare transfer payments are spent. And don't forget that Trudeau gave every one of them extra BILLIONS even tho none of them would sign a deal promising that money would be spent on healthcare alone.
Conservatives and the governments they elect.
Let's put the blame where it's due. People who are dumb enough to think voting blue is fiscally responsible.
tons of cutbacks happen under liberal governments... the least they could do is restoring funding....
we keep voting the same 2 parties in over and over expecting different results
Imo we need to get rid of fptp for anything else.
And I guess I was more focused on ontario where the cons have been open about wanting to privatize healthcare
Ditto for Berta
The Manitoba cons were getting in on that game too before we voted them into oblivion and elected an NDP government.
I wholeheartedly agree
Hahahahahahahaha...bullshit and you know it. Life or death cancer financially fucked me and my family. That was over a decade ago. Now I'm permanently disabled and paying cash for meds. I just did my taxes today. I made $13000 last year. My family medications alone for the year was over half of that.
It's all fluff CMA. Fucking fluff. People get fucked every day by the "free" Healthcare scam.