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From the article, preliminary NDP platform planks:
1) Universal Pharmacare (but initially limited to 125 drugs, as compared w/the 4,000 drug provincial formulary)
- no suggestion of reducing the wider coverage for youth/seniors
2) Commuting all student loans to grants.
3) Moving over time to denationalize Hydro One
4) Moving to some variation of Universal Dental Care, the details are fuzzy at this point...
but it sounds like, mandatory employer benefit funded via payroll tax or employer for workers, while gov't will fund universal dental care
for seniors, social assistance recipients and kids. But further clarity required.
5) She acknowledges corporate taxes will have to rise.
Good, as far it goes.
Need to see the costed details.
But getting everyone core healthcare is something I support.
Wynne put out favourable noises, which I find mildly amusing.
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Of note here, an 8B deficit, if you assume Ontario was close to balance before hand would pay for both universal pharmacare and dental care in Ontario.
Of course if you spend it in 10 other ways as well, then not so much.
1) Universal Pharmacare (but initially limited to 125 drugs, as compared w/the 4,000 drug provincial formulary)
- no suggestion of reducing the wider coverage for youth/seniors
2) Commuting all student loans to grants.
3) Moving over time to denationalize Hydro One
4) Moving to some variation of Universal Dental Care, the details are fuzzy at this point...
but it sounds like, mandatory employer benefit funded via payroll tax or employer for workers, while gov't will fund universal dental care
for seniors, social assistance recipients and kids. But further clarity required.
5) She acknowledges corporate taxes will have to rise.
Good, as far it goes.
Need to see the costed details.
But getting everyone core healthcare is something I support.
Wynne put out favourable noises, which I find mildly amusing.
***
Of note here, an 8B deficit, if you assume Ontario was close to balance before hand would pay for both universal pharmacare and dental care in Ontario.
Of course if you spend it in 10 other ways as well, then not so much.
