Managing healthcare for an aging population: will demographics push Newfoundland and Labrador into a fiscal deep freeze?

Colin Busby and William Robson
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No 153, e-briefs from C.D. Howe Institute

Abstract: No services are more important than the health and community services we deliver through our four Regional Health Authorities. This year, we will invest more than 40% of total [operating] expenditures – nearly $3 billion – in healthcare....” Newfoundland and Labrador 2012 Budget Speech (p. 15).

Keywords: Social Policy; Health Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02
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