If every time your child came to you saying "Mom, I spent all of my allowance and I want some more money, and you can't ask how I spent the money you gave me previously" you acquiesced and handed over more money, what would you expect to happen?  Would you be surprised if your child kept coming back, again and again, asking for ever more money?

I don't know how the negotiations are being handled or what is being said specifically  but I think the federal government is acting absolutely correctly in telling the Provinces and Territories that they're going to have to learn how to spend more wisely, and they can begin by putting their bloated, overweight and overpaid healthcare bureaucrats on a very radical slim down diet - as in "take a good look around you at this meeting: some of you won't be here tomorrow.  And don't even think about it: your computers are being safety reconfigured as we speak".