Letter to the Editor - Globe and Mail

Your editorial In Search Of A Health-Care Fix (Dec. 21) gives the federal announcement on health-care transfers two thumbs up. One thumbs up was for lowering the already historically average federal contribution to health care, the other for limiting the federal role to banker.

You were right in noting that much remains to be done on delivering on promises in the last accord, but it's because the federal government walked away from the tables set up to implement a national pharmaceutical strategy and to transfer knowledge to foster a race to the top.

Provinces can't contain cost drivers and ensure comparability of services on their own.

Linda Silas, president, Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions, Ottawa