No ‘fix for a generation?’ Past health-care deals offer lessons to first ministers preparing to meet on Feb. 7

A federal source told The Hill Times that Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos has been consulting with negotiators closely involved in one of the last major health-care deals, Paul Martin's 2004 Health Accord.

Paul Martin, pictured in a Hill scrum on May 3, 2005, led the negotiation of a new heath accord with the provinces, which he said would be a 'fix for a generation.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

February 5, 2023

As the first ministers prepare to gather and hammer out a deal on health care, which federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos hopes will deliver a “transformation” of the ailing system, their negotiations will become part of a long history of inter-jurisdictional wrangli...

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