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To: elmatador who wrote (32144)4/23/2003 12:47:36 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Hi elmat,
The same health minister>The same health minister No, you assume too much (but that would certainly simplify things). We have a federal health minister and federal health care standards. The individual provinces (each with a health portfolio) are themselves responsible for health care. (and then there are the territories, oy!) This is an ongoing problem with the federal government using the carrot and stick approach by doling out federal funds based upon the various provinces adhering to its (federal) standards..

Our provinces have a lot of power actually. The fed maintains control by taxing us federally and then meting it out (the revenue) to the provinces as it sees fit, in the interest of maintaining uniform standards across the country or so the theory goes. Many provinces are / have instituted user fees for certain things. This goes against the federal ideal of universal health care. Neither our system nor the US system really works with the ideal being somewhere in the middle (IMHO).

regards
Kastel

EDIT if we'd of had a civil war maybe we'd have one of each minister only but.... That's why separation of provinces here is actually doable... We're a 'confederation' only.
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