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3 facts you need to know
About MSP and healthcare costs…
By Bill Bennett
Kootenay East MLA
1. Since 2002, spending on health has increased each year by an average of 4.5%, while MSP rates have increased by an average of 2.6% a year. Every province has to collect enough from its citizens to pay the increasing costs of health care, regardless of what form of tax is used in each province.
2. B.C. charges a relatively small amount as a medical premium to remind us that healthcare is not ‘free.’ MSP premiums fund only a small part of the significant investment government makes in health services each year.
3. Nearly one million British Columbia residents, including thousands of seniors, receive MSP subsidies. More than 800,000 residents pay no MSP premiums at all. That’s about 17% of our population. Go to https://ow.ly/WOa5d for more information.
This message funded by Bill Bennett
