Benefits for employees, employers include improved access, lower costs
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It might come as a surprise to some Canadians that public sector health-care spending (as a percentage of total health spending) is on the low end compared to other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries — with one-third of health-care expenditures actually coming from private sector funding, according to a 2015 report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information.