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

William Robson

No 185, e-briefs from C.D. Howe Institute

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economic Growth and Innovation; Social Policy; Health Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H61 H68 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-10
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