Ontario says it fully supports the Trudeau government’s push for improved reporting of national health care data as premiers and territorial leaders head to Ottawa next week seeking a new health funding deal.
including a plan to move more surgeries out of hospitals to independent clinics to ease a pandemic backlog.
“We’ve always been very open with our federal partners that, if they need the data to prove that the $14 billion that we’ve invested since 2018 is improving our system and making it better, we’re all in,” Jones said.The premiers are asking the federal government to fund 35 per cent of health care, up from what they say is 22 per cent now, amid growing concern about the ability of the provinces to fund a system stretched thin by three years of strains from COVID-19.
As previously reported by the Star, federal and provincial officials have been negotiating behind the scenes for several weeks in advance of what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has billed as a “working meeting” with his provincial counterparts on Tuesday. “This is easily something the country can co-operate on in order to achieve what is an absolutely critical investment,” he told reporters.
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