Healing wins
The pandemic has proven that investing too much in treatment and not enough in prevention, highlights its drawbacks when a health crisis strikes. Especially with the most vulnerable population.
However, both “right” (read, more liberal, anti-massive state intervention) and more “left” (more in favor of social policies) governments invest in health more often to support treatment than prevention.
“More money will go to hospitals and front-line care, but less to public health prevention programmes. We will preserve what is visible above all,” Olivier Jacques assures.
Federal Transfers to Provinces
OECD countries spend an average of 2.3% of their health budgets on public health, while the Canadian government allocates nearly 7% to it.
Comparison of Canadian provinces, in another unpublished study by this researcher (The political economy of public health expenditures: Evidence from Canadian provinces), shows the same trend in investments made between 1975 and 2018: regardless of government, treatment takes precedence, and to a large extent.
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