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Foreign SAGE Publications, Inc.1954DOI: 10.1177/107755875401100705 Saskatchewan Hospital Services Plan G. W. Peacock, "Saskatchewan Hospital Services Plan," Canadian Medical Association J. 70:610 May, 1954 "Total expenditure under the Saskatchewan Hospital Services Plan increased by more than $1,000,000 in 1953 to reach a new high of $16,137,066. Of this amount $6,234,232 was obtained by the hospitalization tax. The"balance consisting of $9,900,000 came from general revenue and a share of the special provincial sales tax. More than 800,000 Saskatchewan residents were covered. This represents an increase of 17,000 people in 1953 and was 97 percent of all those eligible to participate. The Plan is financed by a special tax of $15 per person, with a maximum of $40 per family, and contributions from general revenue, together with a portion of a 3 percent sales tax applied to most goods sold in the province. "There was a slight decline in the average days' stay in hospital from 10.6 days in 1952 to 10.4 in 1953. The number of discharged hospital cases increased to 165,410 from 161,499 but the volume of hospital patient days decreased by approximately 10,000. Hospital care was provided for approximately 94 percent of all women in labour in Saskatchewan,