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Feds should ‘tie a rope’ to health-care payments to address capacity problems, say MPs and experts

Increasing health-care spending, accrediting more foreign-trained health-care workers, and incentivizing frontline workers are solutions MPs and experts suggest to address Canada's challenged health-care capacity.

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BY MATTHEW HORWOOD
January 18, 2022

News | BY MATTHEW HORWOOD | January 18, 2022

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