n by 2026/27.3
             To understand Canada's Health Care Costs better, the Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health summarised three categories of the main factors that are expected to contribute to increasing health care costs.4 First, the basic cost drivers, including population and aging, inflation and rising costs of labour and facilities. Secondly the
             cost accelerators – including emerging and new technologies, new drugs and genetically specific drugs, increased incidence of chronic and new diseases, declining productivity gains, and rising consumer expectations5. Genetic research, for example, has the potential to uncover many of the underlying molecular causes of certain illnesses, but the research is expensive and the treatments will be as well. And thirdly the impact of system change and reform , counting structural changes, changes in how services are delivered, the scope of services provided, roles of providers, information systems, research and continuous improvements in the quality of health services.6
             Based on this reasoning, the proponents of pro-privately financed health system stressed on the inevitability of a radical, dramatic change of the very nature of the entire health care system which would be in no position to face the challenges of the new demographic dynamics (population growth and aging) compounded by increasing costs of new technology, new treatments, new drugs, new equipment.7 Furthermore, the shortages of trained staff in all aspects of the health system will strain existing resources and make it difficult to deliver the services people want and expect.
             In this context of a rather bleak forecast for the Canadian public health care system,
             the remedies could only be, if a substantial funding is poured into the system, which would come from the very users of the health system.
             Alberta's approach outlined in the "A Framework for Reform, Report of the Premier's Advisory Council on Health, 200...