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To: koan who wrote (9128)	2/13/2012 1:11:52 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 85487

newer 97 per cent of Canadians think the federal government's responsibility for the Canada Health Act is important. In return for receiving federal money, provinces must adhere to the principles of medicare as outlined in the Act. Those principles include accessibility to services, universal availability, and portability from province to province. - 70 per cent say they are "worried that without accountability to the federal government, provinces will have no incentive to achieve health care efficiencies." - 88 per cent are worried that "without national standards, Canadians will have different levels of health care depending on where they live." - 74 per cent believe that health care is a shared responsibility between the provincial and federal governments. Few believe it is solely a provincial (13 per cent) or federal (11 per cent) responsibility. - 56 per cent are not confident that the premiers will be able to agree on a plan to improve health care in Canada. - 69 per cent "strongly agree" that they would encourage their premier to "adopt a series of principles that make the health-care system more concentrated on the needs of the patient." The telephone poll of 1,000 Canadian adults was conducted Jan. 4-9. With a sample of this size, it has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. Read more: http://www.canada.com/health/Canadians+want+feds+play+strong+role+health+care+poll/6000586/story.html#ixzz1mHqAHJVU