With rumoured spending cuts in the upcoming federal budget, look for the Conservatives to play up one area of spending theyve committed to increasing: health care transfers to the provinces. Last December, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced a new 10-year plan for health care transfers that will see transfers increase by six per cent for the next five years and thereafter by the rate of economic growth until 2024.
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March 29, 2012
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January 18, 2012
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As the premiers meet this week in Victoria, a number of provinces are clearly distressed about the federal governments plan to reduce the automatic annual increase in health transfers from the current six per cent to the rate of economic growth starting in 2017-18. While the announcement has not been applauded by most premiers and their respective health ministers, it is long overdue.
November 29, 2002
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