Bending Canada’s Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do

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Page Title:Bending Canada’s Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do – C.D. Howe Institute
Article Title:Bending Canada’s Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/bending-canadas-healthcare-cost-curve-watch-not-what-governments-say-what-they-do/
Published Date:October 2, 2014
Accessed Date:February 10, 2025

Canadians should hold off on declaring a slowdown in government healthcare spending to sustainable growth rates, says a C.D. Howe Institute report released today. In “Bending Canada’s Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do,” author William B.P. Robson finds that reports of slower growth in healthcare spending have been repeatedly wrong-footed by chronic budget overshoots. So recent estimates that healthcare spending is no longer growing faster than the economy may also prove optimistic.

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