{"id":370134,"date":"2026-04-01T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:36:17","slug":"atlantic-canadian-healthcare-spending-could-double-in-20-years-without-changes-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/370134\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Canadian healthcare spending could double in 20 years without changes: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report says Canada\u2019s four Atlantic provinces are spending 40 per cent more on health care than they did 10 years ago and could see those totals double over the next 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Economic Council released the report on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It says the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlanticeconomiccouncil.ca\/page\/Healthreport4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">four provinces spent a combined $19 billion on health in 2024-25.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s up from $11 billion in 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>The council says spending on health care will reach $40 billion by 2046 if the four provincial governments don\u2019t build more efficient and financially sustainable systems.<\/p>\n<p>It says the pressure will intensify as the number of people over 75 in the region is expected to increase by 180,000 over the next two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The report says Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia have the highest health care costs per capita in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report says Canada\u2019s four Atlantic provinces are spending 40 per cent more on health care than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-370134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}