'End of medicare': Maude Barlow raises alarm on health spending
The head of a national non-profit group is warning that Newfoundland and Labrador could lose millions in federal health care dollars.
Maude Barlow, who chairs the Council of Canadians, says the Harper government will quietly reduce federal health care funding starting 2016.
Barlow estimates that Newfoundland and Labrador will lose $500-million a year, or roughly $1,000 per person.
"It is really, in my opinion, the beginning of the end of medicare if we allow this to happen," she said.
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