Health care spending growing faster than economy, $9,597 per Albertan this year: report

Would you be shocked to learn Alberta is on track to spend an average of $9,597.48 per person on health care in 2025? That’s $47 billion.

What’s more, according to a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, in 2025, health care spending in Canada is on track to grow nearly two percentage points faster than the economy and is projected to reach $399 billion, thanks to inflation and population growth.

In 2022-2023 economy-wide inflation rates rose to levels not seen since the 1980s.

The highest Canadian population growth rates seen in 60 years (2.9 per cent growth in 2023 and three per cent growth in 2024), were higher in Alberta.

If you think Alberta health spending per capita is high, you should know only New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec spent less per capita on h