A new report suggests the federal government's offer on health funding to the provinces doesn't provide enough cash to help them keep up services in the coming years.
The study, to be released Monday by a University of Ottawa think tank, follows months of bitter federal-provincial talks over health funding.
On one side, the Trudeau government says it has put forward a ``historic'' offer with the potential to transform health care in Canada.
On the other side, five provinces _ representing more than 90 per cent of the country's population _ argue the federal offer is inadequate and threatens their ability to maintain health services at current levels.
The analysis Monday by the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, which explores health-spending numbers and projections for Ontario, agrees that the federal offer falls short for all provinces.
The report estimates the federal offer amounts to average annual funding increases of about 3.7 per cent over the next decade.