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

“Health care is delivered fundamentally on a local level by the provinces, and that’s the way it should be,” said NDP MP Don Davies (Vancouver Kingsway, B.C.), his party’s health critic. “But that doesn’t mean that the federal government doesn’t play a pivotal role in making sure that health-care dollars are spent wisely, that there is a bang for the buck, and that they are properly funding our overall system.”