Can We Avoid a Sick Fiscal Future? The Non-Sustainability of Health-Care Spending with an Aging Population

Funding for Canadian public health care has long relied on a “pay-as-you-go” funding model: for the most part, government pays for health costs each year from taxes collected in that fiscal year with effectively nothing put aside for projected rising health-care costs in the future. But the future o...

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Hauptverfasser: J.C. Herbert Emery, David Still, Tom Cottrell
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: University of Calgary 2012-10-01
Schriftenreihe:The School of Public Policy Publications
Online Zugang:https://dev.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/sppp/article/view/42401