Premiers of three provinces pushing federal government to split health care costs
2026-08-08 from todayville.com
Recently, the premiers of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Manitoba called for the federal government to return to sharing the costs of health care 50/50 with the provinces—a model the federal government abandoned in 1977. This is a bad idea for two reasons.
First, Ottawa already faces a precarious fiscal situation, and increasing health-care spending will only make things worse. And crucially, more money won’t fix Canada’s health-care woes.
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