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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I can't believe I am not covered for this because of the half assed benefits provided by my employer! There is no option to first use up the private benefits. Even if you have $500 annually with a 50% co pay and hardly anything covered, you can NOT access this. How is this not yet resolved??

I would be better off without benefits. I am going to ask my employer if they can modify their group coverage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’ve always found the qualification and roll out of this program incredibly frustrating.

I’m for folding dental care into healthcare

But why is this federal and not provincial, that feels wrong. The income and insurance cutoffs suck. The she cutoffs also suck, seniors should qualify based on income.

The provinces should be doing their jobs on this too.

[–] moonbunny 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The premiers didn’t want to take on Dental Care, and threw hissy fits when the federal funding was conditional on the provinces to follow through on covering dental care instead of just sitting on the funding allocation to claim a “surplus” .

Also, healthcare really should be more of a federal responsibility imo. There’s no reason why we can’t have a more central structure that the provinces could benefit from, especially when it comes to purchasing and negotiating power under 1 country vs all provinces and territories having to go alone currently.

[–] Enkers 4 points 1 day ago

I don't mind if the minutiae are handled provincially, but there at least needs to be more federal oversight, and real consequences if services are not being adequately provided. Tying up funds designated for health care so you can insist the system is broken and then spout privatisation as the cure should be tried as the corruption it is and land you in jail.

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