On average, Provincial governments dole out about 40 per cent of their budgets on health care spending.
Meanwhile, the remaining 30 per cent that typically includes medicine and dental care is paid for through health insurance or out of patients’ pockets.
This 70/30 split has been the trend for decades, CIHI says.
The report calculated that 24.3% of tax revenues was spent on healthcare and used that percentage to determine what portion of the taxes we each pay was used to fund health care – the “public health insurance premium”. (Canada)