Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face
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 report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: The Fiscal Challenge Quebec Has Yet to Face,” […] La gestion des coûts des soins de santé pour une population vieillissante : le défi fiscal que le Québec n’a pas encore relevé
Les Québécois portent un lourd fardeau financier de 768 milliards de dollars – la facture d’impôt la plus élevée pour l’augmentation des dépenses de santé au cours du prochain demi-siècle – et devraient se préparer dès maintenant au tassement démographique à venir, selon un rapport publié aujourd’hui par l’institut C.D. Howe. Dans leur rapport «La […] Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Ontario
Ontarians carry a $1.4 trillion 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 report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age […] Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia
British Columbians carry a $415 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 report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: British Columbia Confronts its […] Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Alberta
Albertans carry a $615 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 report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge,” […] Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Saskatchewan
Saskatchewanites carry a $82 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 report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Some Good News and Some Bad News for […] Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba
Manitobans carry a $100 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 report released today from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Manitoba’s Looming Funding Gap,” authors […] Managing the Cost of Healthcare for an Aging Population: Provincial Perspectives
Canada’s provinces face a common challenge in managing the rising cost of healthcare for an aging population, and ensuring that demographic change does not compromise other major government programs, manageable tax rates, and debt control. The challenge is not identical everywhere, however. Some provinces are aging faster than others, some are more vulnerable to age-related […] Toward Improving Canada’s Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach
Canada’s approach to immigration faces major challenges, and requires reform if Canada is to meet the international competition for skilled immigrants, according to a new policy study from the C.D. Howe Institute. In Toward Improving Canada’s Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach, authors Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green and Christopher Worswick assess the strengths […]Face the Looming Threat: Telegraph Journal Op-Ed
Published in the Telegraph Journal on October 2, 2010
By William Robson
Demographic change affects government budgets only gradually. In the mid-1990s, some advocates of a relaxed attitude toward aging-related increases in Canadian health-care costs compared them, not to an avalanche, but to a glacier. Intended to be soothing, the image is apt in a way those authors did not intend.
Even at a glacial pace, such a mass of ice grinds with tremendous force. The impacts of demographic change on Canada’s fiscal landscape will be profound, and as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, they are no longer far away.
The net public debts of Canadian governments get keen attention. Figures on the unfunded…