Kanadier geben jetzt 1 Milliarde US-Dollar pro Jahr aus, um die Gesundheitskosten von Flüchtlingsantragstellern zu decken; Das Ballonprogramm übernimmt sogar die Krankenversicherungsprämien von Ausländern, deren Flüchtlingsantrag abgelehnt wurde
https://nationalpost.com/news/canadians-now-spending-1-billion-per-year-to-cover-health-care-costs-of-refugee-claimants
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Way to go
Huh.
We are so generous!
Money that could be going towards Canadians by providing them better healthcare, training more family doctors, improving access and delivery times, and expanding coverage to other areas like various cancer screenings.
Ah there’s my Tuesday morning demoralization!
All our hospitals are falling apart.
I work in a hospital built in 1950s. Hasn’t seen a footprint update since.
So the walls have new paint. But the number of beds, clinic spaces, ORs, hasn’t increased for 70years
Also birth tourism and anchor babies are bankrupting us
It’s very common for women to travel from countries around 25 weeks. Stay with a family member (overstay) then give birth in Canada. When the bill comes due the go back home
I hate how this gets positioned as a „race to the bottom“ kind of thing, activating envy/resentment.
Maybe we should:
– Provide all Canadians with a decent level of health care. It’s not that the IFHP is generous, it’s that what we put up with outside it is inadequate.
– Speed up refugee claimant processing, both the initial support, the adjudication, appeals, and then getting those rejected (including failed appeals) off to their next home, whatever that is. The health care costs we pay for a clogged-up pipeline pale to the disruption caused by cases going on for years.
Then the inequality part would go away, and xenophobia wouldn’t need to get activated.
And yes, a decent level of healthcare, for everyone, will cost money. And require trade-offs we’re hesitant to make. But healthcare, education, and infrastructure are exactly those kinds of services it makes the most sense to adequately fund centrally via taxes.
Now let’s talk about remittances.
Asses up! The government is just going to keep fucking us.
WTAF
Hate this. Can’t get a family doctor. 15 hrs wait in the ER, 9 month waits for MRI. But I still send 35% of my income in taxes.
We need to significantly speed up the process of denying claims and deporting these people. Provide only emergency life-saving care to any refugee with a pending claim, we can’t afford to treat the chronic health conditions of everyone around the world.
You all know who is at fault here. You all insist on re-electing them. Deal with it.
This program gives dental, vision, and other extended care to refugees and denied refugees claimants that are not given to actual Canadians.
End this shit, or put it on a tab for them to pay back.
Refugee in designer sneakers and rugged suitcase. The precedent was set as far back as 2013 that Canada will take you as long as you claim refugee.
There’s no way to sugarcoat it, Canadian’s kindness is being exploited and creating a culture of indifference. We need to put our own oxygen mask on first.
Our country will continue to help everyone except ourselves until we become a bankrupt nation. Make no mistake things will get bad in Canada.
We should put tariffs on imports of American divisive narratives
We also send lots of aid to corrupt nations.
The rest of the world sees us as a bunch of suckers.
Im all for caring about my fellow human but at the end of the day we need to protect ourselves first.
We don’t have the resources to do this anymore. It needs to stop.
(I like the Sweden approach if you return to vacation in the country you claim asylum from you are not let back in)
Canadians don’t even have family doctors ffs
What’s a billion here and there among friends
This has been going on for years!
How does this make any sense? Aren’t you already required to provide an OHIP card, and if you don’t, you will be charged?
Im just curious though, how are you a refugee if you fly here?! Do you need humanitarian help that bad??
I’m just confused how we have refugees from India when Bangladesh has a refugee camp?
This has got to stop! Canadians are dying while waiting in emergency rooms for help.
Under no cirmcumstances should our tax dollars be abused the way it currently is.
If their claim was rejected, shouldn’t they be gone?
We shouldn’t allow refugee claimants to stay until they’re approved. This system is so easily abused.
Do failed Sponsorships next!
Thank God a random foreigner can get rapid care faster than I can. /s
My tax money!!!
Glad someones benefiting from me working 2 jobs and living in a basement 🤗🥰
Elbows up, we’ll get through this
Canadians are dieing in waiting rooms while we do this
From what I know, refugees are still flooding into Canada as of now. Immediate work permit, btw.
And in the meantime emergency wait times are worse than ever….
This is one of the things that should be revised.
In case you are like me who wanted to know what’s been done for the medical infrastructure and to meet the demands(Googling+Gemini):
„Since Mark Carney’s transition to leadership, his government has shifted toward a „modernization“ strategy. The goal is to maximize the existing workforce while using
digital tools to cut down on time-consuming administration.
1. Workforce Mobility (Supply)
To address the doctor and nurse shortage, the government is moving away from provincial „silos“ toward a national labor market:
National Licensing: Implementing a single license so health professionals can work across any province without new paperwork.
Foreign Credentialing: Fast-tracking certification for internationally trained doctors and nurses to get them into clinics faster.
Medical Schools: Funding thousands of new residency spots and medical school seats to grow the domestic pipeline.
2. Reducing „Red Tape“ (Efficiency)
Carney’s policy assumes that „demand“ is artificially high because doctors spend too much time on forms.
Digital Automation: Scaling up e-prescribing and e-referrals to eliminate manual paperwork.
AI Integration: Using AI tools to handle routine administrative tasks, theoretically freeing up hours each week for patient care.
3. Infrastructure & Medication (Access)
Physical supply issues are being targeted through direct investment and regulatory changes:
Health Infrastructure Fund: A $5-billion commitment (starting in 2026) to renovate ERs, urgent care centers, and hospitals.
Drug Approvals: Streamlining Health Canada’s process to cut wait times for new, life-saving medications in half.
Medical Device Imports: Scrapping redundant licensing requirements for distributors to make it easier (and more profitable) for global companies to sell medical tech in Canada.“
Citizens, pay for your own dental care PEASANTS! Free dental care is only for the refugee non-citizen class!
We should seriously just cut right to the chase and start sending the Health budget money directly to foreign nations health care and fund them directly. Problem solved. Won’t be anything left for us that pay the taxes that fund this madness, but lets get it over with! /s
Why audit this, when we can audit everything in Government. show us all the books.
I wish Parliament would not give themselves a pay raise of 10% every year, when us regulars are struggling.
And our people are neglected and in camps. What an irony.