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Government health spending is growing at unsustainable rates, while patients are facing shortages of medical resources and declining access to necessary medical care. The president of the Canadian Medical Association recently called on the federal government to become more involved in the management of provincial health systems in order to solve the serious problems plaguing Medicare. Unfortunately, the CMA president seriously misdiagnosed the cause of the health system's ills.


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Canada’s health system is causing a crisis in provincial public finances. The growth in government health spending continues to outpace our public capacity to pay for it. The provinces must shift some costs onto medical consumers, or risk eventual provincial bankruptcy.