{"id":4074,"date":"2018-04-06T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=146a42f8a15c4f3f9bd7fa0558065dbd"},"modified":"2018-04-06T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T15:38:18","slug":"p-e-i-government-boosts-health-spending-in-second-consecutive-balanced-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/06\/p-e-i-government-boosts-health-spending-in-second-consecutive-balanced-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"P.E.I. government boosts health spending in second consecutive balanced budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTETOWN &#8212; Amid speculation about a snap election, the Prince Edward Island government has tabled its second consecutive balanced budget.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Heath MacDonald is projecting a $1.5 million surplus for the 2018-19 fiscal year, saying the province&#8217;s economy is booming.<\/p>\n<p>The centrepiece of the fiscal plan is a big increase in spending for health care.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department&#8217;s budget is expected to rise by $32.5 million, an increase of 4.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that increase will be used to pay for 100 new long-term care beds over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>The feel-good budget also includes a tax cut that is expected to save small businesses up to $2,500 a year, the creation of up to 400 new child-care spaces and new front-line positions to support students in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>The next general election is set for October 2019 under provincial legislation, but there has been speculation Premier Wade MacLauchlan could call for a vote as early as next month or in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTETOWN &mdash; Amid speculation about a snap election, the Prince Edward Island government has tabled its second consecutive balanced budget. Finance Minister Heath MacDonald is projecting a $1.5 million surplus for the 2018-19 fiscal year, saying the province&rsquo;s economy is booming. The centrepiece of the fiscal plan is a big increase in spending for health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}