HALIFAX - Provincial and territorial health ministers will meet in Halifax today with federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to discuss how to reform and pay for health care after the current accord expires in 2014.
Ottawa is providing $27 billion to the provinces this fiscal year for health care and that amount is slated to increase six per cent a year for the next four years.
Aglukkaq said Thursday the talks would centre mainly around accountability in health programs and services.
She said the ministers will be encouraged to come up with innovative methods of delivering health care.
A coalition of medicare advocates believes Ottawa should expand health care programs by increasing taxes.
Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians said the federal government should commit to a 10-year health transfer plan with the provinces that would see a six per cent hike in funding annually.
