{
  "id": 3461103,
  "title": "Food and shelter have driven Canada's affordability crisis. Health care isn't far behind",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/food-and-shelter-have-driven-canadas-affordability-crisis-health-care",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-26T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC Canada",
    "slug": "cbc-canada",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/health-inflation-cpi-9.7320052"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Food and shelter grab headlines, but out-of-pocket health-care expenses have climbed at a nearly identical rate since 2022, Statistics Canada data shows. Economists and policy experts break down the structural drivers behind Canada's rising private medical costs.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}