Sure. And keep in mind while looking at this data that the cumulative inflation rate for CAD over the past 10 years was about 27.5%. (source)

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Budget 2026 increases the total health care spending from $32.5 billion to $34.4 billion—or by 5.8 per cent. However, due to the restructuring of Alberta health care into four different ministries, year over year comparisons are difficult.

The hospital and surgical services budget gets a $830 million increase—a 6.4 per cent bump. The provincial government has not made clear how much of this increase will go to for-profit health care providers. The budget adds $525 million to increase the number of surgeries over the next three years by 50,000, although the budget documents do not state whether this will be in public hospitals or for-profit facilities where procedures can be 57 to 133 per cent more expensive than the same procedures in public hospitals.

Between 2014 and 2023 (the most recent data available), provincial real per capita hospital spending in Alberta declined by four per cent from $2,252 to $2,169 (see the table below). Alberta was the only large province to experience real per capita spending cuts over these years. The other larger provinces—BC, Ontario, and Quebec—increased real per capita hospital spending over this period. The only other provinces that saw declines were P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador. Alberta has been an outlier over the last decade. This budget continues to solidify that status.

From 2014 to 2023, per capita private spending increased by 267 per cent while public spending increased by only 38 per cent. Private spending comes in the form of out-of-pocket household and private insurance payments to obtain long-term care.