Ontarios new health premium, which kicked in last month, is not the answer to the provinces health care financing troubles. In fact, the premiums -- which now cost taxpayers between $150 and $450 per person, depending on income -- will have to triple by the 2007-08 budget-year if revenues are going to keep up with the rate of growth in health care spending.
health premiums
August 4, 2004
2:00AM
