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Jul 7, 2026
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Not all rising health care costs stem from an aging population. What else is driving the increase?
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Not all rising health care costs stem from an aging population. What else is driving the increase?
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In my previous chart we noted that health care costs in Canada have soared to 12.7 per cent of GDP from 7 per cent in 1975.
Although health care costs will always rise with inflation and population growth, they can’t be an ever-growing percentage of GDP, since that would crowd out …
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