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Indeed, of dampened [health spending] growth since the annual Canadian public healthcare spending fiscal crisis and recession of 2008-09.” But is the increased at a 7.4 percent rate in the decade ending current period of slowly growing health spending in 2008, double the growth rate for government the result of unique, explicit constraint efforts that revenue.2 put it on a more sustainable traject [...] The most common measure for analysing We also conclude that provincial and territorial healthcare sustainability is the ratio of public health demands for renewed, large increases in federal spending to GDP because it compares the size and healthcare transfer payments would quickly unwind growth of such spending to society’s total income.5 efforts to contain the growth of provincial/territorial Wh [...] There is some variation maintain the current level of health services without in the size and scope of restraint and growth, with future tax increases compels officials to prioritize the 1991 to 1996 retrenchment most pronounced attempts to contain the growth of healthcare costs in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and in line with the overall economy.7 Manitoba, while the 2010 to 2013 decline wa [...] For the 2011 to 2013 period, due to the rapid withdrawal of economic stimulus the average growth rate was 1.1 percent ranging funds to the provinces, which occurred in 2010 from a low of -2.6 percent for PEI to a high of and 2011, as a response to the global recession. [...] Box 1: Options to Put a Lasting Bend in the Health-Cost Curve – Getting the Right Volume and Price for Health Services Reinhart (2015) cites two key influencers of health-spending growth – the prices/unit of care and the units of care/population.