N.S. appears ready to endorse new federal health-care funding proposal | SaltWire

Halifax Infirmary’s hybrid operating room. - HandoutThe crumbling Nova Scotia health-care system was offered a federal shot of adrenaline Tuesday, a proposal that would inject more than a billion dollars of new health funding into provincial coffers over a 10-year period.

Premier Tim Houston said late Tuesday that the $154 million in additional health-care spending for the province this year will include $102 million from the bilateral agreement portion and $52 million from the Canada Health Transfer, calculated for each province and territory on a purely per capita basis.

Speaking Wednesday with reporters before question period at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Trudeau would not say how many premiers were ready to endorse the funding proposal. The statement said the premiers first heard the federal proposal Tuesday and the Nova Scotia government is still assessing it.

“For example, in Nova Scotia, we have significantly more senior, aging population and we’ve also had recent, rapid growth in population,” Hawker said. “Both these things put a strain on the current system, especially with the physician shortage that we have.” “Improving the primary care system with attachment and access will approve other areas of the health-care system in Nova Scotia as well.”

Dr. Stephen Ellis, the Conservative MP representing Cumberland-Colchester: 'We need to think about the five million Canadians who do not have access to primary care, the 1.2 million Canadians who are waiting for procedures in this country.' - Contributed “We are deeply concerned about that,” Singh said. “We imagine a health-care system that is there for people when they need it and what we said from the beginning is that we would judge this deal based on whether it hires more health-care workers and responds to the health-care shortage and makes sure that people get the care they need.”

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