The Health Board of the respective province. Each Province or Territory does it differently. The Federal Government budgets each of the 13 health boards a given funding cap, and the boards determine how best to spend that money.
What happens when the "funding cap" is met, can my mother and father still get the surgeries they require by the "bench mark"?
What forms of cancer? I suspect these are more lies you have been fed.
Here are the "lies" from the report you cite;
The U.S. has a five-year survival rate in all the cancers studied of 91.9 per cent, while Europe's is much lower at 57.1 per cent. However, survival rates within the U.S. can vary.
The range of survival rates across the five provinces was quite narrow, from a low of 79.3 per cent in Nova Scotia to a high of 85.4 per cent in British Columbia."
I would be too. Diabetes and stroke run in my family, which is why I do everything I can to manage it. Strange concept isn't it? We are responsible for our own health. The government isn't involved.
"The government isn't involved" is contrary to your posts.
You keep saying I am being feed "lies" and yet these "lies" you speak of come from numerous and diverse respected sources including the Canadian HEalth Institue. Perhaps there is a huge conspiracy to promote these "lies"? More "lies";
"Date: Monday, August 17, 2009, 8:35 PM
Overhauling health-care system tops agenda at annual meeting of Canada's doctors
By Jennifer Graham (CP) – 2 days ago
SASKATOON — The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.
Dr. Anne Doig says patients are getting less than optimal care and she adds that physicians from across the country - who will gather in Saskatoon on Sunday for their annual meeting - recognize that changes must be made.
"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"We know that there must be change," she said. "We're all running flat out, we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."
The pitch for change at the conference is to start with a presentation from Dr. Robert Ouellet, the current president of the CMA, who has said there's a critical need to make Canada's health-care system patient-centred. He will present details from his fact-finding trip to Europe in January, where he met with health groups in England, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands and France.
His thoughts on the issue are already clear. Ouellet has been saying since his return that "a health-care revolution has passed us by," that it's possible to make wait lists disappear while maintaining universal coverage and "that competition should be welcomed, not feared."
In other words, Ouellet believes there could be a role for private health-care delivery within the public system.
He has also said the Canadian system could be restructured to focus on patients if hospitals and other health-care institutions received funding based on the patients they treat, instead of an annual, lump-sum budget. This "activity-based funding" would be an incentive to provide more efficient care, he has said."
