Greater access to health care will improve health outcomes, but it almost certainly will raise financial costs. Increasing the quality of health care, although highly desirable, could also result in higher total health-care spending.
8 Based on data from Statistics Canada’s monthly Survey of Employment, Payrolls and Hours, average year-overyear wage growth in 2018 was 2.8 per cent in the services sector compared with 1.8 per cent in the goods sector. 9 For more detail, see Employment and Social Development Canada, “Canadian Occupational Projection System (COPS): Imbalances Between Labour Demand and Supply (2017-2026)” (2017) and related documents.