PM Trudeau presents premiers $196B health-care funding deal, including $46B in new funding
This new cross-Canada offer includes both increases to the amount budgeted to flow through the Canada Health Transfer as well as federal plans to sign bilateral deals with each province and territory that are mindful of each system's unique circumstances.
A five-per-cent increase to the CHT over the next five years provided through the annual top-up, to be rolled into the CHT base after five years to ensure a permanent increase that would provide an estimated $17.3 billion over 10 years; $2 billion over 10 years aimed at addressing the access challenges uniquely faced by Indigenous people.
"The pandemic reminded each and every one of us just how important our health is. It also put enormous pressure on our health-care systems and on our health-care workers, and it made us take a hard look at the long-standing issues facing our healthcare," said Trudeau during a post-meeting press conference.
The premiers’ longstanding ask has been for the federal government to increase the share of Canada's health-care costs that they cover, from the current 22 per cent to 35 per cent. This deal does not satisfy this demand. The next step for provincial and territorial governments will be to develop "action plans" describing how they plan to use the funding and measure improvements to their systems.
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