Who Would Support This?

There are people who have no regular physician and they pay into the system.

Then there is this:

A Conservative motion to restrict health-care benefits to failed asylum claimants was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, with the projected cost of a federal health program for refugees expected to increase to $1.5 billion by 2030.

“Under the Liberals, the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), the program that provides benefits to asylum claimants, has morphed well beyond its initial intent of providing care to a small number of legitimate refugees who are fleeing to Canada from war zones into a massive boondoggle that provides care to bogus asylum claimants,” said Conservative Immigration Critic Michelle Rempel Garner, who tabled the motion.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer published a report earlier this month that broke down the rising costs of the IFHP, which has ballooned from $226 million in 2019 to $1 billion in 2025. The total projected cost is expected to climb to over $1.5 billion in 2030.

The PBO also projects that the number of beneficiaries will continue to grow and will reach over 680,000 eligible beneficiaries in 2029-30.

The program has basic and supplemental health care coverage. The basic coverage includes hospital services, services from medical doctors, registered nurses and other licensed health care professionals, ambulance services and lab and diagnostic services (such as blood tests and ultrasounds).

The supplemental coverage includes psychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech language therapists, assistive devices like prosthetics, mobility aids and hearing aids, home care and long-term care, urgent dental care and limited vision care, medical supplies and equipment. The program also provides prescription drug coverage.

Rempel Garner’s motion calls on the federal government to review the program to find savings for taxpayers, restrict federal benefits received by rejected asylum claimants to emergency life-saving health care only, provide an annual report to Parliament of the IFHP program and pass policies to immediately expel foreign nationals convicted of serious crimes in Canada.

Immigration Minister Lena Diab told reporters that her government introduced a co-pay model in the federal budget, specifically for supplementary coverage. She also said her government will continue to uphold the constitutional, humanitarian and international obligations that Canada has as a signatory to the United Nations convention on refugees.

“We want to still protect those refugees and those people that are claiming the help and need from Canada that legitimately deserves to be protected, including the children,” she said. “We will continue to do that.”

 

Would these be the children you plan on euthanising?

Is MAID offered to our newcomer friends?

Cut the b@$#@rds off.

This practice of covering the bills for these people is a sign of pure contempt the Liberals have for the electorate.

And the electorate lets it happen.