cost of health care

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Premiers simply demand more money while ignoring possible health-care solutions

If the provinces increased provincial spending, they’d either have to raise taxes or run larger budget deficits.


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Average Canadian family will pay almost $16,000 for health care this year

The cost of health care has increased by 210.3 per cent while incomes have only risen 116.3 per cent.


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No Minister Taylor, Canada can’t offer Kawhi ‘free’ health care

Last year, Ontarians waited (on average) 29.7 weeks for orthopedic surgery.


11:56AM
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Canada’s health-care gift horse hardly free

Provincial and territorial governments spent about $157 billion on health care last year.


10:21AM
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The private cost of health-care queues in Canada

In 2017, wait times cost the Canadian economy an estimated $1.9 billion—roughly $1,800 per person waiting.


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Ottawa’s rules make health care worse

Canada ranks among the world’s top spenders, but ranks poorly on several important health-care indicators.