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National Framework on Heart Failure Act

An Act to establish a national framework on heart failure

Summary

  • Requires the federal Health Minister to create a national framework to improve prevention, diagnosis, management, and evaluation of heart failure.
  • Mandates broad consultations with provinces, Indigenous governing bodies, clinicians, researchers, patients, and advocates, including at least one conference within 12 months.
  • Requires tabling the framework in Parliament within 18 months and publishing it online, followed by a five-year effectiveness report with recommendations.
  • Aims to reduce inequities in access to heart failure care and lower the financial and operational burdens on the health system.

Builder Assessment

Vote Yes

Overall, the bill modestly aligns by targeting health system efficiency and indirectly supporting productivity through better heart failure outcomes. It avoids new taxes or regulatory burdens but its economic impact is indirect and contingent on execution.

  • Why it aligns: aims to cut avoidable hospitalizations and costs; standardizes care via a national framework; mandates transparency through public reporting.
  • Gaps/risks: could add process layers if poorly designed; lacks quantified performance targets, funding or incentives; no explicit links to innovation, commercialization, or exports.
  • To better align with Build Canada: set national targets (e.g., reduce HF readmissions by X% and costs by $X by year Y); require interoperable data standards and a national HF registry; tie federal support to measurable outcomes (value-based care, readmission rates, cost per patient); include pathways for rapid adoption of proven therapies and remote monitoring; use outcomes-based procurement to scale Canadian medtech; publish annual dashboards and independent ROI analyses; sunset redundant programs to ensure net reduction in bureaucracy.

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Principles Analysis

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Canada should aim to be the world's most prosperous country.

Health improvements can support long-run growth, but the bill is a narrow health planning measure without direct macroeconomic levers.

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Promote economic freedom, ambition, and breaking from bureaucratic inertia (reduce red tape).

Creates a national framework and reporting, which could streamline care but also adds process; no direct impact on economic freedom.

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Drive national productivity and global competitiveness.

Better prevention and management of heart failure can reduce hospitalizations and mortality, improving workforce participation and reducing absenteeism.

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Grow exports of Canadian products and resources.

No provisions related to trade or exports.

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Encourage investment, innovation, and resource development.

Could indirectly encourage adoption of medical innovations, but the bill does not create incentives or funding mechanisms.

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Deliver better public services at lower cost (government efficiency).

Explicitly aims to reduce financial and operational burdens on the health system and leverage coordination and best practices.

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Reform taxes to incentivize work, risk-taking, and innovation.

No tax measures are included.

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Focus on large-scale prosperity, not incrementalism.

Benefits are meaningful for health and budgets but are sector-specific and incremental rather than economy-wide.

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S-204

PartySenate
StatusAt second reading in the Senate
Last updatedMay 28, 2025
TopicsHealthcare, Public Lands
Parliament45