News | canada.com network: "Private health care growing, study finds
Tom Blackwell
National Post
Thursday, September 29, 2005
As debate swirls about the role of private medicine in Canada, the private sector already covers a bigger chunk of health care costs here than in many Western nations -- and its share is growing, a new report released yesterday reveals.
About 70% of Canada's $130-billion health tab is covered by governments, compared with 83% in Britain, 76% in France and 78% in Germany, according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) review."
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