Archive: Health/Long-Term Care
The headlines from the 2023 Medicare Trustees Report were that the Hospital Insurance (HI) program faces a long-term deficit and will deplete its trust fund reserves in 2031 and that the rest of the Medicare program will require increasing amounts of general revenues. While true, the outlook for program costs is considerably more favorable than…
In Canada, as in the United States, a large share of COVID deaths during the first wave occurred in nursing homes.See Ontario Ministry of Health (2022a) for Ontario and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (2022) for Québec. As a result, the pandemic shed light on lax infection control practices and lack of staff…
