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Public health care as sustainable as we want it to be
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
June 1, 2010.
Provincial governments’ spending on health care over the past 15 years has taken increasingly larger bites out of their expenditure budgets. But this is a simple consequence of large cuts in non-health programs, not of out-of-control medicare spending. These cuts in non-health spending are traceable to substantial cuts in personal and corporate income taxes by the federal and most provincial governments, particularly since 1997… Researchers have known for decades that population aging is a real but a minor factor. Its impact will certainly increase, but it will remain secondary to increases in intensity and costliness of care… Panic-mongering about a “grey tsunami” is simply a distraction.
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