CMA poll

The CMA wakes up to Long Term Care. This poll published yesterday

Canadians Concerned Over Costs of Long-Term Care

The poll found:

- 55% were very or somewhat confident they would be able to cover long-
term care expenses and 43% were not;
- Most (37%) thought long-term care should be the top priority if
medicare were to be expanded, followed by home care (26%); prescription
drugs (18%); dental care (11%); and vision care (2%);
- Canadians were split evenly as to whether the government should cover a
portion of catastrophic drug expenses that exceed a certain amount of
income (40%), or 70% of all Canadians' prescription drug expenses
(40%). Only 16% said government should cover 100% of Canadians'
prescription drug expenses.
- 50% said governments should maintain 100% funding of doctor and
hospital services, even if individuals or their insurance would be
fully responsible for other services;
- 46% said governments should use existing funding to fund 70% of all
health care services including doctors' visits, hospital services, drug
coverage, home care and dental care, even if individuals or their
insurance would pay the difference.