The provinces and territories oppose federal Health Minister Jane Philpott’s desire to cut the annual escalator of health transfers from six per cent to three percent. When the Canada Health Act was passed in 1984, it was understood that Ottawa would pay half of health costs. Now the federal government now provides only 23 per cent of each province’s health budget, though to put it in perspective, the disputed difference represents only 0.69 per cent of a province’s total health budget.
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