Feds must maintain health care momentum in fall economic statement

Creating meaningful, long-lasting change in our health system will require sustained funding with clear, measurable, and transparent results.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will announce the federal government’s fall economic statement on Nov. 21, and while critical issues like housing and affordability are appropriately top of mind as the budget planning cycle kicks off, we can’t lose sight of our beleaguered health system, writes Dr. Kathleen Ross.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KATHLEEN ROSS

November 16, 2023

When over six million people lack a regular primary care provider, and emergency departments are so overwhelmed that many patients are giving up and

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