What happens to $ sent to provinces by Canada?

[Alies Maybee]

I came across this interesting post by Craig Out which looks at what each province does with its money and how it is spent. An easy read with charts. Check out your province to see how it does. Mine is ON and it is not a pretty story!

Ottawa sends every province $1,262 per person. What happens after that is a provincial choice.

[Debra Turnbull]

@Alies-Maybee

Brilliant analysis. So simple and well presented.

I'm based in Ontario. As a patient partner in the provincial healthcare system:

• Ontario WASTES money on the healthcare system.

We know this.

The Ontario system is geared towards large acute care organizations and NOT community based care models - which is cheaper. (There are plenty of studies / evaluations that show these facts; from over the last 10 years.) We also know that the quality of care is better in the community than in large, impersonal institutions.

[Alies Maybee]

@Debra-Turnbull we need to share this widely IMO.

[Debra Turnbull]

@Alies-Maybee
You have a plan?!??

[Kim Locke]

@Debra-Turnbull My mum is getting to a point where "Aging in Place" will really help her. Her short term memory is shot, but all her friends are in the neighbourhood, she can still clean and cook a little, and so is her healthcare/pharmacy. She also can walk around the block without any help and somehow it's all stored in her long term memory.

There's no way that this can be supported in NS though, she will still need a caregiver. (my dad who still works at 81!)

[Alies Maybee]

@Debra-Turnbull not yet. Ideas?

[Debra Turnbull]

@Alies-Maybee

What does your Comms Plan (communications) look like?
and
What can PAN support?

[Debra Turnbull]

@Kim-Locke
Unfortunately, I am not familiar with NS.

What does the Social Services in NS look like?

[Kim Locke]

@Debra-Turnbull Dismal, if you're lucky.

[Debra Turnbull]

@Kim-Locke
I would still start by making an inquiry. Learn about what options your mom is eligible for, and then make a plan. Ask some of her friends about the services they have access to. You would be surprised at how much is out there that nobody knows about - because it is not part of the mainstream.

Just ask questions.

[Jenna Kedy 0]

@Alies-Maybee Thank you for sharing! As a patient and someone who’s spent a LOT of time navigating healthcare systems, the biggest thing I take from posts like this is that patients like me don’t really care whether the problem is “federal” and/or “provincial” when we’re sitting in pain, waiting months for care, losing family doctors, and/or burning out trying to navigate the system. The “same cheque, different choices” point is interesting because yes, provinces absolutely make different healthcare spending decisions but healthcare is also way more complex than a scoreboard chart. Rural access, staffing shortages, aging populations, burnout, and years of underfunding all collide at once. What hits me emotionally is seeing how normalized struggle has become in Canadian healthcare with people like myself waiting years for diagnoses. As someone with lived experience, I don’t want healthcare conversations to become “which province sucks less.” I want accessible care for all at the end of the day, healthcare isn’t charts. It’s people.

[Debra Turnbull]

@Alies-Maybee We need to talk.