The figure of $19,060 is drawn from the Fraser Institute’s attempt to assign a “share” of Canadians’ general tax burden to public health care. The idea is to make visible what is usually hidden: we don’t receive a separate “health-tax” line, so most citizens underestimate how much their tax dollars underwrite medical and hospital services. But this number depends heavily on the assumptions used: which health expenditures to include, how to allocate shared revenues, and how to define a “typical” family. In broader terms, the claim underscores a real tension in Canada’s system: health care accounts for a large portion of public budgets (often 30-40 % of provincial spending) and is growing, which raises questions of sustainability, value, and trade-offs with other public services.
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