News Summary

• Nadeem Esmail and Grady Munro are analysts at the Fraser Institute.
• They say more money from Ottawa won’t solve Canada’s health-care woes.
• Federal finances are in a shambles, they say.
• The federal government needs to shift spending back towards areas within its jurisdiction (such as defence) and away from areas under provincial jurisdiction.
• By freeing the provinces to reform their health care systems, possibly to emulate countries that deliver more and better universal health care for the same or fewer dollars, the federal government will help improve health care and restore its own bottom line.