Health Care for Average Canadian Family Will Cost Almost $17,000 This Year: Fraser Institute

Paramedics and ambulances are seen outside the emergency department at Burnaby Hospital in Burnaby, B.C., on May 30, 2022. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

Since 1997, the cost of public health care insurance (adjusted for inflation) has increased by 93.4 percent for the average family consisting of two parents and one child, increasing from $8,810 to $17,039 in 2023.

The data comes from a Canadian public policy think tank, the Fraser Institute.