Social Theory and Health

TABLE 1

FROM:

Health Security in Canada: Policy Complexity and Overlap

Gregory P Marchildon

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Table 1. Funding sources: five main health security policy and program clusters

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PillarsDescriptionValue in 2006 (C$billions)
Medicare (hospital and physician) healthcare servicesGeneral taxation at federal, provincial and territorial levels of governmenta 63.5
Non-medicare public healthcare servicesb General taxation at provincial and territorial levels of government31.2
Workers' Compensation (WC) schemesLegislated social security contributions by employers at the provincial and territorial levels of government with oversight by ministries of labour1.4
Canada Pension Plan/Quebec Pension Plan (CPP/QPP) disability benefitsSocial security contributions shared by employers and employees with double contributions by the self-employed4.0c
Tax deductions and benefitsTax expenditure subsidies by both orders of government. The two major federal tax policies are the medical expense and disability tax credits.1.4

a Two provinces – Alberta and British Columbia – also collect premiums that are poll taxes on families and individuals collected outside of their respective provincial income tax systems).

b For the sake of simplicity, direct federal public healthcare expenditures have been excluded from this analysis and table.

c The calculation is based upon the C$3.2 billion in disability and disabled contributor's child benefits under CPP plus an additional 25% (C$0.8 billion) added as a rough estimate of QPP disability benefits based upon Quebec's share of the Canadian population.

  Sources: CIHI (2006), Canada (2006a, 2006b).

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