{"id":5828,"date":"2017-10-23T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2020-05-08T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:00:27","slug":"cannabis-and-opioid-crisis-on-agenda-as-health-ministers-meet-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/cannabis-and-opioid-crisis-on-agenda-as-health-ministers-meet-in-edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis and opioid crisis on agenda as health ministers meet in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(October 19, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>By: Kim Trynacity, CBC News<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\">Cannabis and opioid crisis on agenda as health ministers meet in Edmonton<\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"story-title\">Funding not on the table this time. Instead ministers to focus on issues<\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/members-of-the-canadian-health-coalition-ontario-health-coalition-release-report-on-funding-gaps-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/members-of-the-canadian-health-coalition-ontario-health-coalition-release-report-on-funding-gaps-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/members-of-the-canadian-health-coalition-ontario-health-coalition-release-report-on-funding-gaps.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>One day before Canada&#8217;s ministers of health gather in Edmonton, the Canadian Health Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition released a report showing a $31 billion gap in funding from the federal government. (CBC)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>For the first time in about two years, the contentious issue of federal funding\u00a0isn&#8217;t expected to dominate discussion when provincial and\u00a0territorial health ministers meet\u00a0in Edmonton starting\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead they will focus on issues like legal cannabis, pharmacare, mental health and the opioid\u00a0crisis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re moving on from the health accord negotiations which dominated discussions over the last two years, to focusing more on some of the patient outcomes we&#8217;re expecting with those investments,&#8221; \u00a0said Alberta Health Minister Sarah\u00a0Hoffman.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman is chairing the meeting. Ginette Petitpas\u00a0Taylor, Canada&#8217;s new health minister, will join her provincial and territorial counterparts\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta signed a bilateral funding agreement with the federal government\u00a0in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa agreed to\u00a0give Alberta $1.3 billion over 10 years: $703.2 million for home care, including money for infrastructure, and $586 million for mental health initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government also gave Alberta $6 million in emergency funds to help deal with the opioid crisis. That is\u00a0in addition to money from a\u00a0five-year, $65-million national initiative announced late last year.<\/p>\n<p>But a report released Wednesday by\u00a0the Canadian Health Coalition and Ontario Health Coalition questions whether the deals Ottawa negotiated with each province is good for Canadians.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5830\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/alberta-health-minister-sarah-hoffman-doesn-t-expect-funding-to-dominate-discussion-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/alberta-health-minister-sarah-hoffman-doesn-t-expect-funding-to-dominate-discussion-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/alberta-health-minister-sarah-hoffman-doesn-t-expect-funding-to-dominate-discussion.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>Alberta Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says she is eager to discuss common problems, and to get an update on cannabis legislation from the federal health minister (CBC)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>The report, titled<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthcoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Health-Accord-Report.pdf\">\u00a0Health Accord Break Down: Costs and Consequences of the Failed 2016\/17 Negotiations,\u00a0<\/a>concludes that over the next decade, the provinces and will end up losing $31 billion to fund\u00a0public health care.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta faces a $3.43 billion funding gap, leaving it one of the worst hit provinces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The targeted funds are public relations,&#8221; said Natalie Mehra, report co-author and executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition. &#8220;It&#8217;s not any kind of any substantive policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her co-author Adrienne Silnicki, the national director, policy and advocacy, for the Canadian Health Coalition, said the $31 billion is the amount required &#8220;to keep the current basket of services for the next ten years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previous Canada-wide health accords, said Silnicki, have resulted in improvements to public health. She cautions the current bilateral agreements between the provinces, territories and Ottawa, have erased that progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s been totally done away with,&#8221; said Silnicki who points to a\u00a0lapse in national standards for health care delivery across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Mehra says the bilateral agreements have failed to address the growing problem\u00a0with overcrowding in hospitals, and lack of planning and space for the needs of an aging population.<\/p>\n<h2>New health care accord<\/h2>\n<p>The Canadian Health Coalition is urging the provincial health ministers to pressure the federal government into creating a new national health care accord.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s stark, but it is true,&#8221; said Mehra,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not okay to say that the health accord is done. We need to take this fractious issue off the table,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The report used previous costs analysis done by the Parliamentary Budget Office, the Conference Board of Canada, and the financial Accountability Office of Ontario to determine future funding needs.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial and territorial ministers of health will hold closed door meetings in Edmonton Thursday before being joined by Petitpas Taylor on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She was appointed federal health minister in August.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/health-minsters-meet-cannabis-opioid-crisis-1.4361374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for original article<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(October 19, 2017) By: Kim Trynacity, CBC News Cannabis and opioid crisis on agenda as health ministers meet in Edmonton Funding not on the table this time. 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