How much money does Canada’s health system really need?

Before more is spent on health care, Canadians need to insist on evidence that they are getting better value for the existing expenditures, and demand their politicians exercise the leadership to implement needed structural reforms.

Canada's federal Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos, pictured Jan. 20, 2023, at a press conference on the Hill. Internationally, Canada spends more per capita on health care than many other OECD countries, but performs poorly, writes Michael Wolfson. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL WOLFSON

March 16, 2023

As usual, Canada’s provincial premiers have been demanding the federal government give them tens of billions more per year than they’ve been offered for health care, while at the same time claiming (incorrectly) that health care is solely their jurisdiction.

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