| Vol. 3 No. 1 January 11, 2006 |

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| Vol. 3 No. 1 January 11, 2006 |

FACTS AND STATS
$130 billion:The amount Canada spent on healthcare in 2004. Of that amount 70% was public spending while the rest, or 30%, was private spending. In Britian, public spending accounted for 83% of all health spending, while the private sector assumed 17% of health costs. In the United States, the public portion of health spending was 45% while private spending accounted for 55%.

2.1: Number of physicians per 1,000 Canadians in 2003. The median for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is 2.9.

26%:The proportion of low income Canadians, in a comparative survey, who said they went without some healthcare services because of cost. The proportion in Britain, for the same survey, was 12%, while in the USA it was 57%.

7.5%: Expected increase in provincial healthcare spending in 2005-06. The average annual increase from 1997-98 was 7.4%.

$8,002: The average hospital inpatient cost of a knee replacement.

Source: CIHI
Date published: 12-05

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