Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has convened a meeting on health care with the premiers for Feb. 7
The good news is that the feds and the provinces are getting close to a deal on funding health care, and the biggest reason that’s good news is that there will be fewer excuses for the failures.on health care with the premiers for Feb. 7, and it was always clear he wouldn’t do that until the feds thought a deal was within reach.
When Mr. Trudeau said on Wednesday that Canadians want the health care talks to be about more than funding, you can bet he has seen polls that tell him that’s what the public thinks: Canadians want better care, not just more dollars, and want improvement that lasts. The deal won’t be close to the $28-billion per year, but Ottawa is proposing large sums. The Ontario government seems to think it could come away with an additional $70-billion over 10 years; extrapolating that sum to the entire country would add up to something like $150-billion in additional funding over a decade.
The important question – the one most Canadians care about – is what happens after that. And for how long. “Then the question is whether it helps to address structural issues over the long-term,” he said. “History shows it doesn’t.”
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