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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I was reading a quote by a participant in the Liberal strategy meeting this weekend that said that our Health Care costs were almost unsubstainable and we were either going to have to look at increased taxation, decreased basic services and increased wait time.
Sorry I can't remember who it was, but while we're not talking bankruptsy here, we are talking a spiralling cost that will only increase as our population ages.
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This is nothing new. I point you to this recent presentation that outlines pretty clearly the predicted fiscal future of Canada due largely to demographics:
http://www.cabe.ca/jmv1/index.php?op...=658&Itemid=38