From the Fraser Institute. The link below permits you to read the whole thing:
Total Tax Bill for the Average Canadian Family has Increased 1,600 Percent Since 1961
The total tax bill of the average Canadian family has increased by 1,600 percent since 1961, according to a new book, Tax Facts 14, released today by The Fraser Institute. That translated into an additional $26,792 in taxes for the average Canadian family.Canadians’ total tax bill now accounts for more of the family budget than shelter, food, and clothing combined. In contrast to the jump in taxes, expenditures on shelter increased by 1,006 percent, food by 481 percent and clothing by 439 percent over the same period.
The other cost of “free” health care is rationing; as Small Dead Animlas has been documenting, here
The family of a 57-year-old Meath Park woman says it will take at least three months before their mother gets to see a Saskatchewan oncologist who can tell her if her cancer is treatable or fatal.
and here.
18 month old Paige Hansen is currently in a hospital in Edmonton. Her family finally decided Thursday to seek help elsewhere (doing so without “permission” from SaskHealth, and therefore at their own expense) after waiting three weeks for diagnosis of her pain in Saskatoon. The child was “screaming every waking minute”, and had stopped walking 6 days earlier. In the meantime, they were advised to give her children’s Tylenol.
According to a family member being interviewed, the care they received in Edmonton began immediately, testing was done during the first night there. This morning they have a preliminary diagnosis of leukemia.
SaskHealth is the Province of Saskatchewan’s monopoly. Saskatchewan is run by socialists – literally. Edmonton is in Alberta. It’s like this: If you lived in Toledo your health”insurance” wouldn’t pay for treatment in Ann Arbor even if all the hospitals in Ohio were refusing patients.
Supply and demand can be regulated fairly by markets; they cannot be fairly regulated by government.
Artificial limitation of supply to control prices never works. From price caps on gasoline in the 70’s that produced interminable gas lineups, to 3 month waits to find out if your cancer is (now going to be?) fatal: This is your government, and it’s here to get re-elected by appealing to your ignorance and gullibility.