‘We can’t negotiate with ourselves’: Scott Moe calls for meeting at premiers’ news conference
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Premier Scott Moe said health services need to be sustainable moving forward, noting that the federal government committed to raising the Canada Health Transfer in the future.
Canada’s premiers met with each other virtually on Friday after discussions revolving around health-care with the federal government ended in a stalemate.
Calls have been made by the premiers for the federal government to up its share of health-care funding to 35 per cent from 22 per cent.
Saskatchewan is one of the many provinces in Canada struggling to keep up with health-care demand.
Doctors like Dr. Ben Thomson say they are seeing unprecedented levels of sick kids, the provincial auditor wrote a report about the critical need for maintenance at health-care facilities in Saskatoon, and residents like Matt Temple are living through a parent’s nightmare – his sick one-year-old son is hooked up to ventilators and has been in the hospital for two weeks.
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson started the meeting, calling for the premiers and the prime minister to meet early in the new year to discuss funding for health care.
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said the current health-care cost-sharing arrangement with the federal government is not sustainable.
“At 22 per cent federal funding, 78 per cent provincial funding, I’d just put forward that’s not sustainable moving forward and the health-care cost-sharing, investment-sharing arrangement that was brought forward a number of decades ago was never anticipated to be with this small of the federal share,” Moe said.
He said services need to be sustainable moving forward, noting that the federal government committed to raising the Canada Health Transfer.
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