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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David A Dodge; Richard Dion; C.D. Howe Institute. |
ISBN: | 9780888068361 0888068360 0888067836 9780888067838 |
OCLC Number: | 758079310 |
Notes: | "April 2011." Cover title. |
Description: | 1 online resource (12 pages) : illustrations, digital file |
Contents: | This Commentary examines from a macroeconomic perspective the trajectory of total -- public and private -- healthcare spending in Canada over the next two decades. The purpose is to estimate the extent to which healthcare spending is going to absorb a greater fraction of income than Canadians have experienced to date under two scenarios: i) a 'baseline' one calculated from parameters estimated from historical experience, and ii) an 'optimistic' one calculated from parameters that assume an unprecedented improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system and large improvement in the capacity for economic growth. Should policy reforms be incredibly successful in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system, Canadians would still face rising healthcare costs and necessary choices as to how governments and individuals will finance these costs. In addition to increased spending by individuals and employers for health services currently uninsured by provinces, some combination of increased taxes, reduced public services other than healthcare, increased individual spending on current publicly insured services, or a degradation of publicly insured healthcare standards -- longer queues, services of poorer quality -- is necessary to manage the growth in healthcare spending. None of these options is appealing; Canadians have no easy way to manage the chronic healthcare spending rise. |
Series Title: | Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute), no. 327.; Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute)., Health papers. |
Other Titles: | Maladie chronique des dépenses en soins de santé : un diagnostic et un pronostic macroéconomiques |
Responsibility: | David A. Dodge, Richard Dion. |
Abstract:
This Commentary examines from a macroeconomic perspective the trajectory of total - public and private - healthcare spending in Canada over the next two decades. The purpose is to estimate the extent to which healthcare spending is going to absorb a greater fraction of income than Canadians have experienced to date under two scenarios: i) a "baseline" one calculated from parameters estimated from historical experience, and ii) an "optimistic" one calculated from parameters that assume an unprecedented improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system and large improvement in the capacity for economic growth.
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