Ottawa has signalled it is willing to negotiate a 10-year health funding deal that will see a hefty increase for both Canada Health Transfer, or CHT, and bilateral financial agreements with individual provinces and territories
Canada’s premiers will meet among themselves next month in Ottawa with new hope that a health agreement can be reached with the federal government before another budget year of funding is locked in, amid growing expectation the Prime Minister will join the gathering.
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix, who hosted the November meeting in Vancouver, said a breakthrough is needed before Ottawa tables its next budget, which is expected by early April. Federal ministers are gathering in Hamilton, Ont. this week for a three-day planning session in which the health care deal is a key agenda item. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters Tuesday that “we’re looking forward to meeting with the premiers,” adding it would happen “soon.” Cabinet members have expressed ever more optimism about the prospects for reaching a health care deal.B.C.
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey says his top priority is a bilateral deal that increases access to primary care. He said investing jointly in primary care and long-term care with the federal government would take the pressure off emergency departments. “I hear from people every day about the importance of maintaining something which I think all Canadians are anxious about and all Canadians are really proud of, and that is our universal health care system,” she said.
“Patients are coming to harm because we are not coming together to solve the problems in health care,” he said. “I think there’s a recognition that it’s really important to move beyond the data sets of simply counting how much and counting how many.”
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