Health Ministers to discuss new health accord in Toronto
The Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins is hosting the Monday meet to discuss the ongoing challenges that the provinces and territories are facing like an aging population, mental health and opioid addiction.
As per plan, on Tuesday the team of ministers will discuss with Philpott how to develop a new health accord and come to a joint agreement to outline shared goals between the levels of government.
However, the basic resistance between Ottawa and the ministers is the proposed increase to federal health payments.
According to Philpott the Liberal government plans to apply a three percent increase in April despite a pushback from provinces including B.C., Ontario, Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Presently, the increase on the federal health transfers is six percent which is a funding formula established in 2004 under the last health accord.
(Reporting by Debarati Mukherjee)
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