Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier

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Article Title:Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier
URL:https://cdhowe.org/publication/delivering-healthcare-aging-population-nova-scotias-fiscal-glacier/
Published Date:January 7, 2015
Accessed Date:February 12, 2025

Nova Scotia faces a $89 billion fiscal burden – the future tax bill for increased healthcare costs over the next half-century – and should prepare now for the coming demographic squeeze, says a report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Delivering Healthcare to an Aging Population: Nova Scotia’s Fiscal Glacier,” authors William B.P. Robson, Colin Busby and Aaron Jacobs find that the current configuration of demographically sensitive spending threatens to require a 70 percent increase in the province’s tax take.

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