title: Is the Canadian health care system fiscally sustainable?
abstract: Current concerns over escalating health care costs and the sustainability of the Canadian health care system are based on analytical concepts and models that have their own limitations and deficiencies. Measuring health care costs across subsectors over the long-term period, the authors argue that Canada's health care costs, especially those under the direct control of provincial governments, are relatively stable. Using appropriate measures of sustainability, there is no indication that Canada's public health care expenditure is unsustainable. Nor is there any indication that Canada's public health care expenditures are out of line with those of its main trading competitors, including the United States.
authors.forename: Ardeshir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sepehri
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chernomas
mesh_terms: D016361:Bankruptcy; D002170:Canada; D003363:Cost Control; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D018803:Models, Economic; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011634:Public Health; D017150:Public Sector