49
submitted 1 week ago by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The report points out a fact most of us don’t know, but which should be obvious to us all: the federal government heavily subsidizes the private health insurance industry.

How so? Through the non-taxation of employer contributions to private employee health plans. The annual figure for that generous tax break for a profitable industry is $5 billion.

“Before asking how we can afford pharmacare, ask how every year we afford a $5 billion public subsidy for private insurance plans available to only some?”

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago

don't worry about it... criminals like galen and loblaws will be there to sell you healthcare through some crappy scam company called maple, at a premium of course... and also forcing all your 'pc points discounted members only drugs' to be bought through them as well.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

And Telus - Telus Health.

[-] cheeseburger@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

No slashing is going on. The programs have built-in expiry dates, some this year, some next year, and one doesn't even have an expiry. The programs can be extended or not, but no one has said what will happen either way. This is said in the article; it is a sensationalist headline and article.

this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2026
49 points (98.0% liked)

Canada

11903 readers
610 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 Sports

Baseball

Basketball

Curling

Hockey

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS