Making sense of health funding dollars and cents
There are provincial winners and losers in the changing world of the Canada Health Transfer and the future could hold even larger discrepancies in funding
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Author: Livio Di Matteo
Income tax a wartime measure that haunts us still
In the first 50 years after Confederation, the ethos was that taxing incomes weakened Canada’s competitive position. That changed in 1917
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A brief history of federal budgets from 1867-2017
Politicians who do not learn from history doom the rest of us to repeat it
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Canada has more doctors and health specialists than ever
But we don’t have ways to evaluate whether increasing the specialist workforce is always the best investment of our healthcare dollars
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Size of government affects economic performance
The evidence suggests that there are important implications for economic growth associated with the size of government
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