(2) DECREASE GOVERNMENT FUNDING: The economic recession experienced in the 1980’s and 1990’s led to a reduction of public funding of oral health care.2
“Canada has undergone a period of economic difficulty in recent years. As a result, government began to look for areas where greater economic restraint could be exercised. Considerable pressures have been placed on health care programs because they represent relatively large expenditures. Dental public health programs are luxuries to politicians and nuisances to fee-for-service dentists. They are the last to expand when the budgets rise and the first to be cut when they fall”7
Since the 1960’s (Refer to Appendix A) public funding to dental care has been experiencing significant reduction.
“Canada has undergone a period of economic difficulty in recent years. As a result, government began to look for areas where greater economic restraint could be exercised. Considerable pressures have been placed on health care programs because they represent relatively large expenditures. Dental public health programs are luxuries to politicians and nuisances to fee-for-service dentists. They are the last to expand when the budgets rise and the first to be cut when they fall”7
Since the 1960’s (Refer to Appendix A) public funding to dental care has been experiencing significant reduction.