Case Study · Health & Healthcare

Up to $550 Million in Social Value from Portable Health Benefits for Ontario Workers

A workforce-health case assessed the potential social value of portable health benefits for Ontario workers.

Headline finding

$360–550 million

What the Work Shows

The case shows how a labour-market policy can be evaluated through the people affected, including differences in access and wellbeing.

This work follows consequences through the people affected, compares outcomes with a relevant counterfactual, and makes distributional effects visible rather than relying only on aggregate totals.

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Why It Matters

Decision-makers can use this kind of evidence to understand both the scale of an outcome and who experiences it — a stronger basis for comparing options, communicating value and testing whether an intervention improves people's lives.

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