health care spending

10:54AM
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Government spending doesn’t buy happiness

Ottawa's child-care program simply shifted the form of care away from parents’ preference and towards the government-subsidized option.


7:30AM
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Canadians already pay ‘membership fee’ for health care

A typical family with an average household income of $169,296 will pay an estimated $16,950 for public health care this year.


8:59AM
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New health minister should not repeat predecessor’s mistakes

Canada now has the most expensive universal health-care system in the world.


4:00AM
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Canada can learn lessons from Europe to fix our broken health-care system

At the beginning of 2023, at least 645,000 Canadians were waiting for surgery.


9:38AM
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B.C.’s cross-border cancer care initiative—necessary, bold and hypocritical

The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.


10:49AM
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Provinces strengthen their shackles in exchange for more federal health-care dollars

The Canada Health Act severely limits the ability of provinces to innovate and experiment with health-care policy.


8:34AM
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Overwhelming evidence—it’s time to fix Canadian health care

Canada ranked last on the timeliness of both specialist and elective surgical care.


4:00AM
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Canada’s aging population—what does it mean for government finances?

At the provincial level, an aging population is putting upward pressure on health-care spending.


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Alberta faces future of declining resource revenues and aging population

By 2043, Albertans aged 65 or older will account for a projected 19 per cent of the province's population.