Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Canada Winnie pc Durci Imarn 2000 Canadas spending on health continues to balloon report Manitoba aging population a menacing Cost Challenge by Alexandra Paul i i i y 4 give us a restart Date and you could be one of our daily winners plus youd be helping a needy family every Day from december 1 through december 2000 a daily draw will be held for a Granny valued at plus one of equivalent value will be donated to Winnipeg Harvest on the winners its to win give us your restart Date when stopping your paper and your name will be entered once into the daily subscribers who Stop their paper with a restart Date and donate their papers to our newspaper in education Nie program will have their name entered twice into the daily subscribers who have not stopped their paper the previous can Call our customer service Centre on wednesday or thursday Between 9 12 noon and have their name entered once into the daily daily winners will be issued a certificate and can pick up their prize from anywhere Granny products Are a certificate will also be issued to the Winnipeg Harvest on the winners the free press its Worth knowing i i i it Canada will spend More this year on health care than any time since the heyday of medicare in the according to a National report that also shows Manitoba aging population Means the province can barely keep Pace with healthcare spending health spending will Rise per cent this year to says a report by the Cana Dian Institute for health As the Public sector spending the Pri vate sector share begins to these Are growth rates we Haven seen since the late report consultant Geoff Ballinger Ballinger notes that despite the dismal Impact of an aging Manitoba trends reflect the National in actual Dollar spending has soared dramatically in the last two years under forecasts in the in per capita terms it looks like Manitoba is in the top agreed health sciences centres chief executive John who sits As a Mem Ber of the institutes expert advisory based on 1998 figures and the report forecasts the provinces per capita health spending leaped per cent in 1999 and another per cent in 2000 to the equivalent of Bil lion in total Public health but the numbers Are Manitoba Only appears to spend More than almost any other province on Home once the aging population is factored into the Manitoba rank in spending drops dramatically from third place to sixth Manitoba change in ranking when the adjust ments Are made is a very significant Home in the Impact of the aging population is so great that it drags the provinces commitment on health spending one to two percentage Points below the National Home in 1998 that Means per capita spend ing was after demographics gobbled up nearly of the actual per capita spending of with 14 per cent of Manitoba residents Over age the province boasts the highest population of seniors in second Only to the country seniors make up per cent of its in healthcare the country has been steadily regaining ground it lost to massive budget cuts in the private sector spending is also rising at rates of per cent in 1998 and forecast rises of per cent in 1999 and per cent this year mostly due to rising prescription and overt counter drug but the Pace is slower than Public from 1996 to annual growth in Public spending averaged 6 per doctors saw their standing dip again this spending on physicians across the country ranked third in a Cihi report last now spend ing on doctors is Down to fourth Hospital spending ranked first in the race to make up for lost ground from the 90s fiscal drugs and the private sector ranked other spending including reinvestment in health spending on Home Public health and related services ranked exercise your right to Gateway has the perfect pc to fit every need and no matter what your technology demands Gateway has the perfect pc to fit every need and and get one year of Al for an additional we make technology 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Favourite t Canadas seniors doing better Sta scan by Bruce Cheadle in As average incomes among seniors have risen faster in recent decades than average incomes among working age families on Ottawa Canadian most notably have made big gains in the past 20 years relative to other income says a new study by statistics since the percentage of women aged 65 to 69 living below the Low income Point has said the Winter 2000 edition of perspectives on labour and income released it was Down to nine per cent in 1997 from 39 per cent in the study by John a visiting professor from Florida state still found that unattached senior women who were divorced or never married remained disproportionately among the poorest but the Overall lot of Canadas seniors has certainly in comparison with everyone in As average incomes among seniors have risen faster in recent decades than average incomes among working age wrote who spent a year As a visiting research fellow with statistics this trend is due As much to slow real wage growth and falling relative incomes among younger workers under 35 As to rising pension income among older Twenty years two out of five seniors were in the Bottom 20 per cent of income making seniors twice As Likely As the general population to be m the Bottom by seniors were actually under represented at 17 per cent among the poorest of Canadian income if you were to track incidence of poverty across Canada Over the last two or three you would see the sector where weve made absolutely the most Progress is in alleviating poverty among said Ivan head of one Canadian seniors advocacy that just because it was such a sorry state of affairs added women made the biggest relative partly because they had the furthest to since said statistics retirement income for women aged 65 to 69 has grown 10 times faster than but by that Only brought senior women average after tax income to 60 per cent increase but still less than two thirds of the average income of men the same women Are catching up because of a increased participation in the paid work where they build up Canada pen Sion plan contributions and May accumulate company pensions and sock Money away in unattached older remain overrepresented among the poorest fifth of income forty two per cent of these women were in the Bottom income rung in compared with 70 per cent Back in Canadian press ;