Health negotiations need to go beyond money squabbling

To get beyond the money issue, the federal government needs to sweeten its offer to provinces and territories.
Having Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a guest of the premiers' Council of the Federation is one way that substantive talks could happen about the future of health care in Canada, write Chris Simpson and Don Drummond.
Canadians tuned out the recent federal-provincial meetings on health care, dismissing them as just another spat over money. Instead of a national agreement, the process led to bilateral agreements with some provinces and suggestions that the discussion needs to move to the first ministers’ table....

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