The final sec- Covered health care services are delivered al- tion estimates the health care costs associated most exclusively by the provinces while the fi- with the migration of seniors presented in the nancing of such activities is provided jointly by second section. [...] For instance, the average per-person health over the age of 90 were 8.3 times that of the av- care costs for Canadians between the ages of erage costs for Canadians between the ages of 65 and 69 ($6,424) was 1.8 times that of Canadi- 45 and 64. [...] Fiscal pressures from spending on dicate the cumulative net senior migration from health care for migrating seniors 1980 to 2016, which is distinct from the annual average depicted in figure 4 because it accounts The interaction between average government for the migration of seniors over the entire pe- health care spending by age (nearly half of the riod. [...] Saskatchewan recorded the highest net total is for those over the age of 65) and the fi- out-migration of seniors as a share of the se- nancing of health care through taxes (largely nior population: 9.1 percent. [...] For instance, in 2010, the average migration of seniors, recorded essentially no government health care costs for those aged costs or savings, which is largely attributable 70-74 would have been applied to the num- to the small net number of seniors migrating to ber of seniors migrating to or from each of the the province over the 25-year period: 847.
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