Chantal Hébert: Did Justin Trudeau boost health-care funding enough? There’s someone whose opinion matters more than any premier’s
MONTREAL—With the dust settling on the first ministers’ long awaited health-care meeting, it is clear that federal efforts to dampen expectations as to its outcome were justified.
Inasmuch as the main part of the package — a guaranteed five per cent increase in the federal health transfer for the next five years — comes with few or no strings attached, the premiers were left with precious little leverage to try to exact more money. Not everyone has found it easy to reconcile the premiers’ oft-repeated claim that they are in the driver’s seat of the system with the suggestion that all that ails it is Trudeau’s fault.
If the restraint that was on exhibit at the health-care table is a harbinger of that budget, it may turn out — much like the prime minister’s health plan — to be more prudent than ambitious. At week’s end, the most vocal critic of Trudeau’s proposal to the provinces has turned out to be his partner in the current Parliament.
To add insult to injury, the New Democrats’ top demand of a national pharmacare program did not rate a mention in the first ministers’ list of priorities.
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