The deal is expected to involve billions of dollars of new federal money as health systems across the country buckle under the strain of staff shortages, surgery backlogs and clogged emergency rooms
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acquiesced to the demands of premiers and will meet with them in Ottawa next month to hammer out a new spending deal on health care.
The premiers have asked for the federal government to dramatically increase its share of health care costs from 22 per cent to 35 per cent as systems across the country buckle under the strain of staff shortages, surgery backlogs and clogged emergency rooms. In exchange for billions in new money that provinces and territories have been requesting, they will have to agree to national accountability measures and reforms to improve their health care systems. Quebec and Ontario initially objected to Ottawa’s key demands, but last week agreed to accept the conditions, including the creation of a national health data system.
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