Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: Does the Demographic Glacier Portend a Fiscal Ice-Age in Ontario?

Colin Busby and William Robson
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No 148, e-briefs from C.D. Howe Institute

Abstract: If we do not seize the opportunity now to begin creating a system that delivers more value for the money we spend, Ontarians a decade or two hence will face options far less attractive than the ones we face today.... [T]hey will be confronted with steadily escalating costs that force them to choose either to forgo many other government services that they treasure, pay higher taxes to cover a relentlessly growing health care bill, or privatize parts of the health care system....” Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. Public Services for Ontarians: A Path to Sustainability and Excellence (Ontario 2012, p. 27).

Keywords: Social Policy; Health Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-01
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