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In the current issue of Health Affairs, Allan Rock, Canada's minister of health, believes that Canadians want to see their revered health care system flourish once more. He discusses the problems the system is facing as funding shifts more and more to the provinces. He notes that, of the $90 annual spending on health care in Canada, the federal government contributes about 23 cents, the public contributes about 31 cents, and the remaining 45 cents is paid for by the provinces. So the federal government now contributes less to health care costs than the public.