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G21-P032 Nationalise Long-Term Care [ Rejected ]
This proposal was rejected at VGM-2.
Submitter Name
Pierre LeBlanc
This proposal was incorporated into G21-P033 during workshop at VGM-2.
Proposal
The GPC will:
- Nationalise for-profit LTCs;
- Create a structure and processes for their community-based governance;
- Greatly increase funding of seniors’ and disabled persons’ care;
- Steeply increase the training/number of seniors’ care workers;
- Train and integrate family care-givers into LTCs;
- Establish national standards for LTC design, operation and inspection.
Objective
In the context of the pandemic of grief, reduce the number of preventable deaths and suffering of seniors, disabled persons and their caregivers by improving levels of care and quality of life in long-term care centres by fully incorporating them into the public sphere and the Canada Health Act.
Benefit
For decades, provincial governments have defunded seniors’ care, including long-term care (LTC). They also privatised LTCs, resulting in the diversion of funds from care to shareholder dividends. They also reduced staffing ratios. The LTC reset will repair this broken system and save countless lives of seniors and their caretakers.
Supporting Comments from Submitter
A recent Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) study showed that the death rate in Canadian long-term care facilities was double the average for OECD countries.
Long-term care in Finland:
https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/122399/Finland.pdf
The long-term care system in Denmark:
https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/122389/Denmark.pdf
An Angus-Reid poll on the issue showed that fully two-thirds (66%) of respondents supported the full-scale “nationalization” of long-term care.
http://angusreid.org/covid19-long-term-care/
An Abacus Data poll recently released by NUPGE indicates an even larger 86% majority of respondents support having long-term care facilities brought under the ‘universal, accessible’ mandate of the Canada Health Act.
https://socialistproject.ca/2020/09/pension-fund-capitalism-and-covid19-pandemic-revera/
Like health care in general under the provisions of the Canada Health Act, this proposal is under joint federal/provincial jurisdiction. This shared jurisdiction did not pre-empt the implementation of Universal Health Care, including the Canadian hospital system. The implementation of this policy will obviously require negotiations among the four levels of government – federal, provincial, Indigenous and municipal.
Green Value(s)
Sustainability, Participatory Democracy, Social Justice, Non-Violence.
Relation to Existing Policy
Add to current GPC policy.
This proposal has been rejected because:
This proposal was rejected at VGM-2.
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P031, P032, P033 were removed from the green bundles at VGM Phase 1. There is considerable overlap btw these proposals and they need to be amalgamated or 2 need to be rejected. The challenge? Health care transfer payments are federal & health care implementation (& standards) are under provincial jurisdiction. I think including LTC in the Canada Health Act is the best vehicle to legislatively advance the implementation of national standards. There are good privately for profit LTC in Canada, so I am not sure I want to specifically prohibit this (in P031, P033). While many points in this proposal P032 are laudable, most could be incorporated into national standards.
I agree. PO32 could be removed as it is too prescriptive and the points would be covered if included in the Canada Health Act.
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