{"id":829119,"date":"2026-07-27T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829119\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:56:17","slug":"ministers-to-meet-about-how-ottawa-funds-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/829119\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers to Meet About How Ottawa Funds Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/wakeham-at-the-airport-3.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Ministers to Meet About How Ottawa Funds Health Care\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The Premier says it\u2019s time to come up with a different model of funding health care in Canada. <\/p>\n<p>Transfers from Ottawa are based on population, but Tony Wakeham says that model no longer works as Newfoundland and Labrador is very large geographically but with a small population. Yet, it still has to provide health care to all. <\/p>\n<p>He says the federal government used to fund 35 per cent of the cost of health care but that has gone down to 18 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>Current agreements between the provinces and Ottawa expire next year. <\/p>\n<p>He says they have agreed to convene a meeting of health and finance ministers to discuss the funding situation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the size of the three Maritime Provinces combined,\u201d says Premier Wakeham. \u201cSimply basing it on a per capita basis for health care delivery\u2026we have to look at that and see if can change it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (VOCM News) The Premier says it\u2019s time to come up with a different model of funding health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,269876,185074,269873,20739,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-829119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-ottawa","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}