Roughly 30 percent of all Canadian healthcare is privately paid for, about the same proportion as the average for the 34 industrialized countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). However, two things make Canada’s public-private mix unique....

Ensuring that all members of the community, including the poor, have access to urgently needed healthcare is a central objective of Canadian social policy. Yet, in the current system, there are many population groups in which individuals have difficulty accessing even urgently needed dental...

Ontario healthcare reforms have made headway in improving access to primary care by implementing the "capitation" model where doctors are paid mainly for a roster of patients rather than fee-for-service – but too many of patients are still using "outside" doctors, according to a report from...

With annual spending of about $4.5 billion dollars in 2010, Canada’s largest drug plan - the Ontario Drug Program (ODB) - will become harder to afford as the babyboomers age and workforce growth slows. A business-as-usual approach to funding the plan, which provides publicly funded drug...

La version française de cet article peut être consultée à: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2286812 Quebecers carry a $768 billion fiscal burden – the higher tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a...

“No services are more important than the health and community services we deliver through our four Regional Health Authorities. This year, we will invest more than 40% of total [operating] expenditures – nearly $3 billion – in healthcare….” Newfoundland and Labrador 2012 Budget Speech...

“In 2007–2008, comparable health care expenditures stood at $425 Million. Since then, these costs have grown 7 per cent annually… [S]tatus quo growth of 7 percent per year in health care spending is simply not an option. The more we spend on health, the less we are able to address the...

“New Brunswickers have been clear about their priorities: they want quality, affordable health care and services for our seniors.” (2012/13 New Brunswick Budget, p. 14). New Brunswickers carry a $78 billion fiscal burden – the higher tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next...