Social Policy Trends: High System Users and Provincial Health Care Costs

An analysis of the costs of treating acute health issues AB 23,086 67.8 $33,601 $2,214,986 $80,501 9.6% illustrates the value of this public approach to health insurance. [...] Calculation of the share of the provincial health care budget relies on data collected from provincial government public accounts A significant fraction of provincial health care budget is devoted to paying and reported by Kneebone and Wilkins (2016). [...] Averaging across all nine provinces, In an example from the table, there were 67,851 ‘high users’ of Ontario’s acute care in 0.7% of the adult population in each accounted for 8.4% of health care 2014-5. [...] The average cost of their acute care was $6,215 in Ontario, or $45,079 These data suggest the value of broadly pooled public health insurance. [...] An analysis of the costs of treating acute health issues illustrates the value of this public approach to health insurance.