health care transfer payments to provinces and territories. Coronavirus has made health-care shortfalls ‘obvious’ to Canadians: poll The premiers are reiterating their unanimous demand that the federal government hike the transfer by $28 billion this year, and by five per cent more each year thereafter.They argue the federal government shoulders only 22 per cent of the cost of health care; their demand would increase that share to 35 per centPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has acknowledged that the federal share must eventually increase but he’s told premiers that will have to wait until after the COVID-19 pandemic, which has sent the federal deficit into the stratosphere.The premiers argue they need stable, long-term, unconditional funding.