Healthcare in Canada
Healthcare spending
Healthcare spending
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While the Canadian healthcare system has been called a [single payer system](/wiki/Single_payer_system "Single payer system"), Canada "does not have a single health care system" according to a 2018 Library of Parliament report. The provinces and territories provide "publicly funded health care" through provincial and territorial public health insurance systems. The total health expenditure in Canada includes expenditures for those health services not covered by either federal funds or these public insurance systems, that are paid by private insurance or by individuals out\-of\-pocket.

In 2017, the [Canadian Institute for Health Information](/wiki/Canadian_Institute_for_Health_Information "Canadian Institute for Health Information") reported that healthcare spending is expected to reach $242 billion, or 11\.5% of Canada's [gross domestic product](/wiki/Gross_domestic_product "Gross domestic product") for that year.

The provinces and territories health spending accounted for approximately "64\.2% of total health expenditure" in 2018\.  Public sources of revenue for the public healthcare system include provincial financing which represented 64\.2% of the total in 2018\. This includes funds transferred from the federal government to the provinces in the form of the CHT. Direct funding from the federal government, as well as funds from municipal governments and social security funds represented 4\.8% in 2018\.

According to the CIHI 2019 report, since 1997, the 70–30 split between public and private sector healthcare spending has remained relatively consistent with approximately 70% of Canada's total health expenditures from the public sector and 30% from the private sector. Public\-sector funding, which has represented approximately 70% of total health expenditure since 1997, "includes payments by governments at the federal, provincial/territorial and municipal levels and by workers' compensation boards and other social security schemes".


What sources of revenue fund the public healthcare system in Canada?