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Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge

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  • Colin Busby

    (C.D. Howe Institute)

  • William Robson

    (C.D. Howe Institute)

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Between 1999-2000 and 2010-11, total government program spending increased by 36.4%, from $7,505 per capita to $10,240 on a constant dollar basis. Nowhere is the need to bring expenditures and revenue into alignment more obvious and critical than in health care... with the population aging – and more expensive medical technology and treatments available to improve health outcomes and quality of life – we have every reason to believe spending on health care will continue to rise in the foreseeable future.” Shaping Alberta’s Future: Report of the Premier’s Council for Economic Strategy (Alberta 2011, p. 96-97).

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  • Colin Busby & William Robson, 2013. "Managing Healthcare for an Aging Population: How Alberta Can Confront its Coming Fiscal Challenge," e-briefs 145, C.D. Howe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdh:ebrief:145
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    1. Finn Poschmann & Philippe Bergevin, 2013. "Reining in the Risks: Rethinking the Role of Crown Financial Corporations in Canada," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 372, February.

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    Social Policy; Health Policy;

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    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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