Canada’s premiers wrote Thursday to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for regular reviews to be established as part of health-care funding talks, saying the system needs predictability.
Ottawa has offered more than $46 billion to provinces and territories to augment the Canada Health Transfer but the country’s premiers say they’re “disappointed” with the amount.
“While this first step marks a positive development, the federal approach will clearly not address structural health-care funding needs, nor long-term sustainability challenges we face in our health-care systems across the country,” the premiers wrote to Trudeau.
The letter said premiers are prepared to accept the offer for now, but further discussions are needed to establish longer-term predictability and stability in health care, they wrote….