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Manitoba Health Spending: Still Much Higher Than Average

• In 2011, Manitoba’s provincial government spent $5.32 billion on health care.
• Manitoba’s provincial government spent $4, 266 per person on health care. This is 12.9 per cent more than the Canadian average of $3, 778.
• If per-person healthcare spending in Manitoba had been aligned with the national average, the province would have saved just more than  $600 million in 2011.
• As was the case a decade ago, Manitoba spends considerably more money per-person on healthcare then the Canadian average and this high level of spending continues to strain the provincial budget.
• There is no clear evidence Manitoba’s high level of healthcare spending has led to higher levels of healthcare system performance than exist elsewhere in Canada. Recent inter-provincial analyses by the Frontier Centre show that despite spending levels that are well above average, Manitoba’s healthcare system performance ranks in the middle of the pack when compared to other provinces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information

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Ben Eisen

is Assistant Research Director and Senior Policy Analyst at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.  Ben holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance.  Since joining Frontier in 2009, Ben has completed major  research papers on a wide variety of policy issues. He has authored papers on early childhood education policy, university tuition policy and Canadian fiscal federalism, among other topics. He is the lead researcher for Frontier’s two major inter-jurisdictional comparisons of healthcare system performance.   Ben has co-authored a number of policy studies about environmental policy with Dr. Kenneth Green of the American Enterprise Institute. Ben has presented the findings of his research in dozens of radio and television interviews, and his op-ed commentaries have been published in the National Post as well as in major regional newspapers including the Winnipeg Free Press, the Calgary Herald, The Gazette and the Toronto Sun.

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