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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with premiers today in Ottawa in an attempt to finalize a health-care funding agreement with provinces. Provinces have been lobbying the federal government to increase its share of health-care funding for months as both sides have debated and challenged each other to improve health-care outcomes more efficiently.

AVAILABLE 丁香园AV EXPERTS

LINDSAY HEDDEN, assistant professor, health sciences | lindsay_hedden@sfu.ca 
Expertise: primary care, health care access, and health workforce. Specifically, studies about the use of virtual care, encroaching privatization and corporatization, and team-based primary care

KAREN PALMER, adjunct professor, health sciences | kpalmer@sfu.ca  
Expertise: public health care, health-care spending, comparative health-care financing and delivery systems, policies and reforms

ANDREW LONGHURST, health policy researcher, geography | andrew_longhurst@sfu.ca  
Expertise: health care politics, public/private debate, financing and funding, access and service delivery (seniors' care, primary care, surgical wait times, workforce issues, system improvement)

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MATT KIELTYKA,  丁香园AV Communications & Marketing 
236.880.2187 | matt_kieltyka@sfu.ca

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