Office of Internal Affairs and Treasury Secretary Matt

[Sec. of State Superique]

Could you clarify how much authority the regions have over healthcare policy? I see that Fritzcare sets up CHPs as public sector corporations with borders the same as the regions, but how much regional authority do the regional governments have over those?

As the current SoIA, I would like to give my personal point of view on that issue. CHPs are independent public companies, for this reason, Regional Governments have as many powers as the Federal Government on that matter: none. They are controlled by a board of physicians, medical specialists and the folks from the healthcare industry, and Governor don't have much power on that.

Maybe, we should take a look at reforming that. What makes Medicare in Canada interesting and greater is because each Province has its own way to deal with its own programs, maybe we could have that in Atlasia. However, we may not forget what happened with Medicaid in real life, where empowering states on that matter wasn't really good... 

[Sec. of State Superique]

Now that you are saying that, I don't know if we can actually order something to the CHPs. They look to me as public but independent institutions...

[Sec. of State Superique]

This is what we get for having a cat from Minnesota design our healthcare policy.


Actually that might of been Afleitch that structued that part. Okay, this is what you get for having a Scottish teddy bear design our health care plan.

In fact, I have read the Mental Health Reform Act and I noticed that there is no need to reform the CHPs at all. The reason why I say this is because you are just requiring the CHPs to fill a Board with some members, you are not changing the CHPs structure, you are just asking here to do you a favor