The Parliamentary Budget Officer has done evaluations of the long-term consequences. A little earlier, the question of whether we should continue spending more on health care was asked. In fact, what is proposed is not that we spend more, but that we spend less. The federal government's financial contribution to health care is going to decline. It is already below what was proposed in the Romanow report, which was 25% as a sort of target. It is going to decline gradually, and that necessarily means that the federal government's role in defining policy in the health care system will become less and less significant, since the resources will not be there.
On May 31st, 2012. See this statement in context.