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Download or read book Partnership Renewed Transforming Canada's Health Funding Arrangements - by Erich HartMann & Alexa GreiG. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This could in part be due, according to cihi, to the rapid growth in supply of physicians - the number of physicians per population has also been rising significantly due to more medical graduates, domestic and What is driving costs in health care? a clear picture of the cost drivers in the canadian health care system is crucial to understand the magnitude of the threat to fiscal sustainability fa. [...] the consistent upward trend of health expenditure growth since 1975, including sharper growth in the period from 1975 to the early 1990s as well as from the late 1990s to 2010, has been punctuated by two periods of fiscal restraint in the mid-1990s and in the period from 2010 to the present. [...] Of key importance to the establishment of the systems was the idea that the sharing of eligible health care costs equally between the two orders of government was seen as the fairest way to set the funding contribution levels between equal partners (Provincial- territorial ministers of health 2000). [...] the new conditions in the act highlighted a disconnect between the role of early assessments of the epF arrangements opinion at the time on whether the federal government or the provinces stood to gain more from the new arrangements was mixed, yet it indicates that both partners stood to gain from the new arrangements. [...] the epF represents a landmark in collaborative federalism, and the value of the tax points is an important consideration in any discussion of whether the current level of federal support for provincial health care spending is meeting the sharing of costs the 1977 arrangements were designed to achieve.
