The Canadian health care system was facing a $537.7 billion shortfall at the end of 2010, an amount equal to more than $32000 for each Canadian taxpayer, calculates a new report from the Fraser Institute. The report, titled The Unfunded Liability of Canada’s Health Care System, calculates that medicare’s unfunded liability increased by 2.1% to $537.7 billion in 2010 from $526.7 billion in 2006.
The report can be viewed at www.fraserinstitute.org/research-news/display.aspx?id=19059 [9].
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