Healthcare

Bloc Québécois intends to create an independent healthcare system run by just Quebec. They promise to maintain universal health care. Quebec wants the federal government to not interfere In Quebec’s jurisdictions. Québec will also demand compensation in all Canada wide health programs. Quebec wants their health care system to focus on what there people need. They want to make sure they’re not wasting their peoples money on health care that’s not in high demand for that area and groups of people. Bloc Québécois were asked the following questions..

If you are elected, will your party help us to reach women across the country by committing $3 million to support The Heart Truth campaign?

Health and social services are strictly a provincial jurisdiction, and, as such, the Bloc Québécois feels that Quebec and the provinces are the best placed to implement the healthcare system that meets the needs of their respective populations, on their own terms, without any restrictions from the federal government.

The Quebec government created the Programme national de santé publique 2003-2012, one of whose many objectives is to reduce cardiovascular-related mortality and morbidity rates by 3% every year until 2012. To truly support Quebec and the provinces in their fight against heart disease, the federal government needs to stop setting priorities and start increasing its share of healthcare funding.

The Bloc Québécois believes that the complete elimination of the fiscal imbalance that is currently crippling Canada, and depriving Quebec and the provinces of the revenues they need to meet their health and social services obligations, is the only way that Quebec and the provinces can further develop the public services under their jurisdiction, jointly with the partners in their territories, and ensure that citizens receive appropriate health and social services in a timely manner.

If you are elected, will your party commit to including diagnostic imaging tests, such as MRIs and echocardiograms, in the Tomorrow study to provide a better understanding of heart disease and stroke?

For the Bloc Québécois, research is an extremely promising avenue that must be encouraged. Identifying the causes of certain diseases, and discovering new palliative treatments and cures helps to significantly improve the quality of life of thousands of Quebecers and Canadians. As such, we propose that the federal government substantially increase the budget allocated to fundamental research and that it transfer it directly to Quebec so that the latter can invest the funds as it sees fit.

Works Cited:

Web. 3 Mar. 2015. <http://www.heartandstroke.com/atf/cf/{96C39C8B-81B4-4C82-A505-39EC3A05B328}/Bloc-Quebecois-EN.pdf>.

Web. 3 Mar. 2015. <https://www.poltext.org/sites/poltext.org/files/plateformes/can2006bloc_plt_summary_en_12072011_115352.pdf>.