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Health care funding falls, again

Real p rovincial government health care funding per-person has fallen again this year in Ontario, the third year in a row.  Since 2009 real funding per-person has fallen 2.6% -- $63 per person.  Across Canada real per person funding is in its fourth consecutive year of increase. Since 2009, real provincial funding across Canada is up $89 -- 3.6%. In fact the funding gap between Ontario and Canada as a whole has gown consistently for years (as set out below in current dollars). Ontario funds health care less than any other province -- indeed, the province that funds health care the second least (B.C.) provides $185 more per person per year, 4.7% more.   Provincial health care spending in the rest of Canada (excluding Ontario) is now  $574 higher per person annually than in Ontario.   Ontario has not always provided lower than average health care funding increases-- but that has been the general pattern since 2005. Private expenditures on health care