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Canada's business leaders have been strong supporters of Canada's universally accessible public health care system. While this approach reduces the direct costs to employers, international perceptions of declining quality of care in Canada are becoming a significant competitive disadvantage in attracting high-paying jobs such as those in head offices. Canadians should be proud of our past achievements, but we can and must do better.

As the CCCE stated in its 2002 submission to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, to sustain universally accessible, high quality, comprehensive and timely health care for all Canadians, the first priority must be to get the economy right. Over time, our rate of economic growth will determine our standard of health care in terms of how many of the coming global innovations in prevention, diagnosis and treatment that Canadians will be able to enjoy.
The way in which Canada meets the evolving health care needs of Canadians must remain consistent with our social values. International evidence suggests that while choices on how to share the costs of health care fairly within society do represent an important expression of collective values, they have remarkably little impact either on total health care costs or on the health outcomes achieved for any given level of spending.
No matter how it shares the total costs of health care within society, Canada must leave no stone unturned in its efforts to get the best possible value from our collective investments in health care. In meeting this challenge, private sector initiative, private sector energy, private sector expertise, private sector innovation and private sector capital all can play important roles in sustaining and improving the quality of publicly funded health care in Canada.


Click for further information:	Home >> Human and Community Development >> Health Care Health Care Canada's business leaders have been strong supporters of Canada's universally accessible public health care system. While this approach reduces the direct costs to employers, international perceptions of declining quality of care in Canada are becoming a significant competitive disadvantage in attracting high-paying jobs such as those in head offices. Canadians should be proud of our past achievements, but we can and must do better. As the CCCE stated in its 2002 submission to the Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada, to sustain universally accessible, high quality, comprehensive and timely health care for all Canadians, the first priority must be to get the economy right. Over time, our rate of economic growth will determine our standard of health care in terms of how many of the coming global innovations in prevention, diagnosis and treatment that Canadians will be able to enjoy. The way in which Canada meets the evolving health care needs of Canadians must remain consistent with our social values. International evidence suggests that while choices on how to share the costs of health care fairly within society do represent an important expression of collective values, they have remarkably little impact either on total health care costs or on the health outcomes achieved for any given level of spending. No matter how it shares the total costs of health care within society, Canada must leave no stone unturned in its efforts to get the best possible value from our collective investments in health care. In meeting this challenge, private sector initiative, private sector energy, private sector expertise, private sector innovation and private sector capital all can play important roles in sustaining and improving the quality of publicly funded health care in Canada.
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