Health Ministers Meeting Wraps In Toronto – PortageOnline.com
18 October 2016
Manitoba Health Minister Kelvin Goertzen says they didn’t get the commitment they were looking for.
Provincial health ministers met with the federal Health Minister Tuesday in a meeting that focused on securing long-term funding. Goertzen explains at the beginning of Medicare, it was a fifty-fifty cost sharing agreement between the provincial and federal governments. Today, the federal government funds less than twenty-five per cent of health care costs to some provinces.
“I don’t expect, that the federal government is going to turn around tomorrow and go back to a historical position of fifty-fifty cost sharing on health care, although perhaps maybe many Canadians already believe that that’s the case,” says Goertzen.
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