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Dear John,
While Canadians don’t pay directly for medical services, we do pay a substantial amount of money for health care through a variety of taxes.
And it might surprise you just how much the average family pays for this "free" health care.
A new study published by the Fraser Institute today finds that a typical Canadian family of four will pay an estimated $18,000 for public health-care insurance this year.
Since 1997 (the first year for which data is available) the cost of healthcare for the average Canadian family has increased 2.2 times as fast as the cost of food, 1.6 times as fast as the cost of housing, and 1.7 times as fast as the average income.
Check out all the numbers here, and be sure to spread this news on social media.
Sincerely,
Niels Veldhuis
President
The Fraser Institute
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