Our 'Free' Health Care Costs $4,500 a Person
Canadians will spend $148 billion on health care this year or $4,548 per person -- a spending rate that outpaces inflation and population growth, the Canadian Institute for Health Information says. Despite controversy over two-tier health care, the ratio of public-to-private spending has remained stable over the past decade, at 70% public and 30% private, the institute said in a report released yesterday.