Tag Archives: health care spending
Attack of the health care zombies
In his inaugural Economy Lab post, Chris Auld does a superb job of demolishing the idea that a healthy lifestyle substantially decreases demand on the health care system. He calls it the "zombie argument" because: it has been repeatedly shot, stabbed, and poked at with sharp sticks, but it won't just die. People still believe that […]
Someone is Getting Health Spending Under Control
The sustainability of provincial government health spending is a big issue and drug spending in particular has garnered a fair amount of attention. Whereas in 1975, drug spending only made up about 2 percent of public sector health spending in Canada, today it makes up nearly 10 percent and indeed has been one of the […]
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