What we have is an obligation to provide the people who are at the lowest part of the socioeconomic spectrum a base line safety net of fair and reasonable care.
If we want to understand the true burden of health entitlements, we need to account for not only what we spent on them directly, but also the fair share of net interest payments on the national debt attributable to these same entitlements.
He said he likes the idea of money following the person and thinks that it would be a more fair and open way of funding the safety net health care program.
But Alberta's dislike of big government also owes much to the fact that for years it has paid for more than its fair share of it, being the largest net contributor to the federal government's revenues.
More than two-thirds of those questioned, 68%, said they thought that the results they were presented with were a fair and unbiased selection of the information on a topic that can be found on the net.