Health deal between provinces, feds won’t fix broken system: CMA – National | 24CA News

The president of the Canadian Medical Association says the brand new well being funding deal struck between provinces and the federal authorities represents the most important nominal injection of money into Canada’s well being system, however that gained’t be sufficient to repair what’s damaged.

The affiliation in contrast the take care of different well being agreements over the past twenty years and located it to be the biggest by a big margin at about $16 billion in will increase per 12 months over 10 years.

The evaluation additionally checked out whether or not such funding agreements have made a distinction up to now.

Association president Dr. Alika Lafontaine says large investments do appear to have made a distinction, however progress backslid when events stopped working collectively.

He factors to the $1 billion former prime minister Stephen Harper put towards reducing wait instances, which appeared to make a reasonably important enchancment

Now he says the issues confronted by the health-care workforce are rather more severe and it’ll take political will and co-operation to beat them.