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

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  • William B.P. Robson

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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.

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  • William B.P. Robson, 2014. "Bending Canada's Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say, But What They Do," e-briefs 185, C.D. Howe Institute.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdh:ebrief:185
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    1. Shuva Gupta & S. N. Lahiri, 2014. "Comment," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 109(507), pages 1013-1015, September.
    2. William Robson & Colin Busby, 2014. "Credibility on the (Bottom) Line: The Fiscal Accountability of Canada's Senior Governments, 2013," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 404, March.
    3. David A. Dodge & Richard Dion, 2011. "Chronic Healthcare Spending Disease: A Macro Diagnosis and Prognosis," C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, C.D. Howe Institute, issue 327, April.
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    Keywords

    Economic Growth and Innovation; Social Policy; Health Policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
    • H61 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Budget; Budget Systems
    • H68 - Public Economics - - National Budget, Deficit, and Debt - - - Forecasts of Budgets, Deficits, and Debt

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