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- Believes that a balance of public and private health care delivery options should be available in the provinces and territories (1)
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- Believes in a fully publicly funded health care system and will fight the privatization of health care services in Canada (7, 4)
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- Supports the current single-payer, publicly funded Health Care system administered under the Canada Health Act (3)
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- Will defend the current single-payer universal health care system under the Canada Health Act and opposes privatization (4, 10)
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Collaboration with Provinces/Territories to Manage Health Care Funding
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- Will tie healthcare transfers to the provinces based on economic growth after 2016-2017 (19)
- Will work with provinces and territories to create defined objectives and quality indicators (1)
- Will add a sixth principle to the Canada Health Act to provide stable and transparent federal funding to the provinces for use in improving health care (1)
- Will conduct a medicare audit to investigate how well Medicare is working, focusing on program design and health-care financing issues (1)
- Pledges to work with the provinces, territories, and professional medical associations to increase the supply of health care professionals (1)
- Pledges to work with provinces to create programs and policies to promote wellness and disease prevention (1)
- Put into place a reduction in the rate of increase in provincial health transfers, due to set in two years from now (14)
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- Pledges to reverse a planned budget cut to, and increase funding of health care transfer payments to provinces and territories (6, 14)
- Will invest $6 billion over four years into health care (17)
- Promises to work collaboratively to improve access to primary and long-term care (6)
- Will commit $200 million as a recruitment grant to help provinces hire approximately 7,000 more family physicians; communities with shortages of health care providers will have priority, and the NDP estimates that this strategy will help them support health care for approximately 41,000 more seniors (8)
- Will commit $300 million to build or expand 200 health care clinics (9, 13)
- Will commit $1.8 billion to improve care for seniors, including home care, palliative care, and nursing home beds (9)
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- Pledges to invest $3 billion over four years into health care especially for in-home caregivers, financial supports for family care, and, palliative care (15, 16 p.9)
- Will meet with the premiers to discuss how to strengthen health care and engage closely in areas where there is direct federal jurisdiction, including health promotion, support to caregivers, and First Nations' health (4, 15)
- Pledges to amend the Canada Health Act to make annual payments to provinces/territories, subject to consultation with the federal government on quality standards, access to health services in rural areas, and improving cost efficiency (3)
- Promises to ensure annual payments reflect demographic and geographic factors (3)
- Will fund initiatives for health promotion, care for the elderly, pharmacare, combating obesity and diabetes, and addressing the health care needs of veterans (3)
- Pledges to negotiate a new deal with the provinces and territories to replace the 2004 Health Accord, which will focus on creating accountability for measurable outcomes in cost effectiveness, efficiency, and timely access to care (3)
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- Pledges to collaborate with the Provinces and Territories for a renewal of the Health Care Accord of 2004 (4, 10)
- Promises to increase transfers to provinces based on the age of their population with those with higher ages receiving more (14)
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Pharmacare | | | |
- Believes pharmaceuticals are the responsibility of the provinces, not the federal government (19)
- Promises to adhere to the international standard of a 20-year patent limitation for prescription drugs (1)
- Promises to enhance freedom for natural health care products with safeguards for public safety (1)
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- Will commit $2.6 billion towards working with the provinces to establish universal comprehensive drug coverage for all Canadians (8)
- Universal coverage will not be implemented by the end of the NDP’s first mandate, but the NDP estimates that this plan will lower costs for Canadians by 30% through bulk buying of prescription drugs (8, 12)
- Will provide funding for provincially administered pharmacare programs and encourage use of less expensive drugs (7)
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- Does not support a universal pharmacare program (15)
- Will work with provinces to lower prescription drug costs (13)
- Pledge to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals for Canadians through bulk buying, combining federal, provincial, and territorial purchases (14, 16 p.9)
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- Will create and implement a National Pharmacare Plan to lower the costs of prescription drugs with bulk buying, asserting it could save $11 billion and keep health care providers aware when patients are in danger of over-medication (4, 10)
- Will expand health care to cover public dental care for low income youth (4, 10)
- The National Pharmacare Plan will be more rigorous in assessing new drug applications (10)
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Mental Health | | | |
- Launched a $31.5-million plan on dementia in partnership with private- and public-sector groups (19)
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- Commits $40 million over four years to launch a national Alzheimer’s and Dementia strategy (6, 9, 13)
- Will create a $100-million, four-year Mental Health Innovation Fund for children and youth, including $15 million per year for health-care providers and community mental health associations as well as $10 million per year for research and information-sharing among health-care providers (6, 12)
- Pledges to create a youth mental health innovation fund to reduce wait times and improve access to care (18 p.IV)
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- Pledges to increase funding for mental health initiatives from 5% to 8-10% of the federal health care budget (3)
- Pledges to implement and fund the recommendations from the Mental Health Commission of Canada’s report, Changing Directions, Changing Lives: A Mental Health Strategy for Canada (3)
- Pledges to create an office for a national mental health ombudsperson who will issue an annual report on the status of mental health in Canada for Parliament (3)
- Will work in partnership with mental health specialists, provinces and territories, and groups such as the Alzheimer’s society to create a National Action Plan on Dementia (3)
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- Will integrate extensive mental-health services, including expanded psychotherapy and clinical counselling into the health care system as recommended by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (11)
- Pledges to invest create a national dementia strategy (14)
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Other Policies | | | |
- Pledges to amend the Labour Code to create a new right for “at-risk workers” to be notified when they have been exposed to infectious disease; this right would “transcend” the privacy rights of the infected individual (1 p24)
- Proposes a three-year initial ban on human embryonic stem cell research starting in 2014, supporting a focus on post-natal stem cell research (1 p25)
- Will not support any legislation to regulate abortion (1 p25)
- Pledges to match donations for this year’s Terry Fox Run up to $35 million (2)
- Pledges to provide capital funding of $12.5 million to help establish the Canadian Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Centre in Vancouver, BC (2)
- Will give the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer a renewed 5 year mandate beginning in 2017 and fund the partnership with $50 million dollars (2)
- Committed to providing Canadian Armed Forces veterans with more expanded and accessible pension programs, disability benefits, and caregiver support, as well as hiring more case managers to provide veterans with individualized care; however, the government cut veterans’ pensions and downsized Veterans Canada offices and staff (20, 21, 22)
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- Will create a designated federal home care transfer to guarantee a basic level of home care services for all Canadians (7)
- Promises to establish a Patient’s Bill of Rights (7)
- Pledges to establish a National Health Care Council to ensure enforcement of the Canada Health Act and will extend the range of services offered under the Canada Health Act to include prescription drugs, palliative care, and home care (7)
- Pledges to work with First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples to address their specific health care related challenges (7)
- Pledges to expand the Compassionate Care Benefit so people can take up to six months paid leave to care for seriously ill loved ones (18 p.IV)
- Promises to increase support for Canadian veterans and their families via extending the Veterans’ Independence Program and increasing funding for veterans’ pensions, insurance, and healthcare (7)
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- Will increase the Employment Insurance Compassionate Care Benefit for persons caring for a seriously ill family member with an additional $190 million per year (which will not require an increase to insurance premiums) to make the eligibility requirements more flexible, allow sharing between family members, and allow persons to claim the six-month benefit in blocks of time over a year long period (5)
- Pledges to earmark $20 billion over 10 years specifically for "social infrastructure," which includes affordable seniors' housing and long-term care facilities (14)
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- Will focus on preventative strategies in health care and work with the provinces to establish preventative health care guidelines that encourage active lifestyles and healthy diets (4, 10)
- Pledges to adopt stricter regulations to prohibit cancer-causing chemicals from entering consumer products or food (10)
- Pledges to conduct a National Conference on Lyme Disease to develop a strategy to combat Lyme Disease (10)
- Will facilitate the switch to electronic record keeping (10)
- Encourages team-based medical practice in which the family physician works closely with naturopaths, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, midwives (10)
- Pledges to provide adequate health care funding for Aboriginal peoples both on and off reserves (10)
- Promises to expand rural health care infrastructure by investing in telehealth and mobile medical units to ensure Indigenous communities have access to critical care (10)
- Promises to drastically change policies of care for Canadian Armed Forces veterans, proposing a complete re-write of New Veterans Charter and Veterans Affairs Canada policies for the purpose of increasing benefits, pensions, and disability support for veterans (10)
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