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Kelli Stajduhar and Tanya Sanders

COVID-19 shows support for home care long overdue

Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured with chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Home care has never been encompassed under the Canada Health Act, and decades of cutbacks to federal health transfer payments under previous federal governments have shifted greater proportions of the costs of home care to the provinces. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured with chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Home care has never been encompassed under the Canada Health Act, and decades of cutbacks to federal health transfer payments under previous federal governments have shifted greater proportions of the costs of home care to the provinces. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured with chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Home care has never been encompassed under the Canada Health Act, and decades of cutbacks to federal health transfer payments under previous federal governments have shifted greater proportions of the costs of home care to the provinces. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Health Minister Patty Hajdu, pictured with chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Home care has never been encompassed under the Canada Health Act, and decades of cutbacks to federal health transfer payments under previous federal governments have shifted greater proportions of the costs of home care to the provinces. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade