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Cost of paying Canada’s doctors rose almost 4 per cent, to $25B: report 

TORONTO — A new report shows the number of physicians in Canada grew last year as did the overall cost of their services, which rose almost four per cent to $25 billion.

The report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) tallied the number of doctors across the country in 2015 at more than 82,000.

For the ninth year running, the number of physicians increased at a faster rate than the population. There are now more doctors per person than ever before — 228 for every 100,000 Canadians.

Source: Cost of paying Canada’s doctors rose almost 4 per cent, to $25B: report | CTV News