Question: Health care spending eats up as you were saying almost 40% of the budget, you must have some idea some clue as to why that is, why are we paying more per person than on average?
Premier Dwight Ball: Well the interesting thing about what we... Minister Bennett mentioned this in her comment, the thing about health care in particular, I spent quite a number of years and we are certainly very pleased to have Dr. John Haggie and other many resources that we have within government and outside of government feeding into a process , Minister Bennett mentioned the aging population that we have in our province right now, so given where we are, you'd anticipate an even higher portion of the budget but what we are not getting is as we spend money in health care we are not seeing the improvement in health outcomes aso that's going to be our focus... how we improve the health of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians...
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