Health Budget: Rsquo

Alberta Health Dept: Over three fiscal years that included the recession, the government incurred $10-billion in deficits – small by Canadian standards, large by Alberta’s. Not until 2013-2014 does Alberta plan to be in the black, according to Globe And Mail. The arithmetic is simple. If the biggest part of a province’s budget – now 43.6 per cent – is rising by 27 per cent over five years – something else has to give, provided a government doesn’t wish to raise taxes. And give it is and even with this $8.3-billion from non-renewable resources estimated to rise to $11.8-billion in two years , Alberta’s Conservative government can’t balance the budget this year. It can’t even balance the books after dipping deeply into the province’s Sustainability Fund. Many are the reasons for such a wealthy province staying in the red, but one stands out as it does in every province : Alberta’s health budget takes up 43.6 per cent of program spending. This year, government money to the Alberta Health Services budget will rise by 6 per cent; this increase is the second part of a five-year plan to raise the AHS budget by 6 per cent, 6 per cent, 6 per cent, 4.5 per cent and 4.5 per cent. As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, sustainability fund