Healthcare

The RPC will also commit Canada to significant investment in developing national research, manufacturing, logistics, education, and response capabilities to assist with the global fight to eliminate diseases, such as Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)[1], which are killing millions and severely impacting billions of people every year.

The RPC will expand individual's end-of-life freedoms and legislate additional end-of-life healthcare systems to support them; accordingly, we will also legislate expansion of existing medical assistance in dying (MAID) programs.

The RPC will expand the definition of healthcare to include all necessary testing, medicines, treatments, implants, prostheses, and other technological and compassionate supports for the complete physical, mental, and emotional health of humans from before birth until death.

The RPC will legislate free contraceptive products to be made available in pharmacies, schools, and other public facilities.

The RPC will legislate free and ubiquitous access to menstrual products to Canadians that need them.

The RPC will update the Canada Health Act (CHA) to mandate all healthcare services (whether currently covered by provincial programs or otherwise) are to be entirely free at the point of care (aka completely and directly billed to the insurance provider); specifically, this means not requiring patients to pay up-front and receive insurance reimbursement later - which is a major hurdle for many low-cash Canadians, even if they have insurance coverage.

The RPC will invest materially and immediately in developing global healthcare capabilities; we acknowledge that most severe healthcare issues can affect humans as a single, collective species.

The RPC will update the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to irrevocably include comprehensive universal healthcare from the beginning of life to the unplanned end or self-determined end of life.

The RPC update the Canada Health Act (CHA) to explicitly prohibit privatization of any aspect of healthcare (e.g., family doctors, dentists, hospitals, labs) in Canada. To give this policy de facto, as well as de jure power, the RPC will make all future federal transfer credits to provinces entirely conditional on each province's exclusive use of public healthcare systems. Any province which privatizes any portion of essential healthcare services will immediately and continually be disqualified from transfers until they entirely revoke the privatization. Specifically, changes such as those proposed in 2023 by the Ontario government[source] are unethical and have been proven ineffective, so we will update Canadian federal laws to irrevocably prohibit future governments from selling our healthcare system to the highest bidder one piece at a time.

The RPC will invest materially and immediately in developing national research, manufacturing, logistics, education, waste water testing, and emergency response capabilities to prepare for the inevitable next pandemic.

The RPC will change the current fee-for-service (FFS) healthcare model[1] which incentivizes overutilization and less time per patient visit, to a pay-for-performance (P4P) model[2] which emphasises quality and efficiency of care.

The RPC will enact tough new legislation outlawing unproven and other pseudoscientific and predatory forms of healthcare.

The RPC will legislate public ownership and operation of gym facilities, which are an essential part of a comprehensive healthcare regimen, and will be initially available to low income individuals and families (at no cost), eventually expanding availability to all Canadians (for a small, but proportionally fair means-based fee).

The RPC will work to ensure all healthcare legislation, policies, standards, and procedures follow the objective, fact-based guidance of the relevant scientific institutions.

The RPC will legislate a steadily increasing minimum age for purchasing cigarettes and provide additional programs and supports to assist individuals that want to quit smoking. This approach protects the rights of Canadians who already smoke while also dramatically reducing the number of smokers in future generations.