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• AIG (insur)
• Air Canada
• AOL Travel
• Bank of Montreal ("BMO")
• Best Western
• Canada Protection Plan
• Canada Revenue Agency (!)
• Canadian Tire Fin Serv
• Chip Home Income Plan
• CIBC
• Cold FX
• Desjardins (insurance)
• Directbuy, Inc
• Edward Jones
• General Motors
• Grand and Toy
• Grey Power (insurance)
• H&R Block
• Hilton Hotels
• iContact email marketing
• Infinity (cars)
• Koodoo mobile
• Lens Crafters
• Monster.ca
• National Post
• Neutrogena
• Nutrisystem
• Quicktax
• RBC (Royal bank)
• Rogers Cable
• ScotiaBank
• Shaw Cable
• Texas Travel
• The Co-operators (ins)
• Tim Hortons
• Travelodge
• Vonage
• WeightWatchers
• Westjet
• Working.com
• Zip.ca

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PTBC J-Log

A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Canada’s North Korean-style health care system: spending to jump nearly 12% this year due to economy

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday November 20 2009 at 08:17 AM

Health care spending to jump nearly 12% this year due to economy’s decline
Vancouver Sun, November 20, 2009

Canadian health care spending is expected to reach $183.1 billion in 2009 or $5,452 per Canadian, according to figures released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

The estimate represents a $9.5-billion increase from 2008.

As a proportion of the gross domestic product, health expenditures represent 11.9 per cent, an all-time high, says the CIHI report. In 2008, it was 10.8 per cent.
[...]

“Every year, health care expenditure basically does outpace inflation and population growth . . . the question is by how much,” McFarlane said. ...


RELATED:

Despite “free” (—wink!) healthcare…

Bankruptcies soar 43%
Friday, November 20, 2009

The number of bankruptcies across the country was 43 per cent higher in September than at the same point a year ago, government data shows.

That story was brought to you by Canada’s state-owned news media, the socialism-reliant CBC.  But here’s an impeccably related and “health care”-related and state-owned, state-run anythings blog entry from earlier this year:

NICE TRY: CBC anchor doesn’t allude to fact that more Canadians go bankrupt than Americans
Thursday September 10 2009

...If you’re tired of Michael Moore-style documentaries and need a break from the CBC, read my blog entry “US medical bankruptcies a myth; personal bankruptcy rate higher in Canada” [Thursday July 16 2009]....

 

Posted by Joel Johannesen on   Fri, November 20, 2009 at 8:17:50 AM
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