As people continue to have rising life expectancies, and as the medical costs of caring for older people continue to dominate health-care expenses, health care programmes could be in BIG trouble if they aren't revised. I have written about this before (see this and the links there), but this cartoon captures the problem (via Jack):
For more on the unsustainability of Ontario's health care system, see this.
... [I]n health care, by far the most important and costly service, Canada is the only country that forbids competing with the public system. A 2014 Commonwealth Fund Report found the performance of Canada’s monopoly health-care system ranked well behind Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.K. And a 2013 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report found that, despite spending 36 per cent more per capita than the OECD average, Canada has the longest wait times for elective surgery.