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Waiting for health care is not a necessary evil

Canada sees increase in number of doctors, but at a cost

CALGARY | Just as there's no free lunch, there's no free healthcare, even in Canada. A typical Canadian family with two parents and two children will pay $11,320 in taxes for public health care insurance in 2013, according to the Fraser Institute.

The CFNU President Linda Silas and representatives of Canada's provincial nurses unions will be present in Niagara-on-the-Lake during the Council of Federation meetings this week.

Pharmaceutical innovation leads to reductions in health care costs and productivity losses associated with illness, concludes a new research report prepared by the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care for the Conference Board of Canada.

FREDERICTON | “Actuarial expertise and methods can help identify areas to lower healthcare costs,” says Jacques Lafrance, president of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.