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Health Care Wait Times Commentary Archive

More private clinics will help Ontario—but province needs fundamental health-care reform
By Tegan Hill, Bacchus Barua | January 23, 2023
Alberta needs fundamental reform to tackle health-care wait times
By Tegan Hill, Bacchus Barua | January 18, 2023
Canada’s health-care wait times hit record high of 27.4 weeks
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | December 19, 2022
Overwhelming evidence—it’s time to fix Canadian health care
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | September 9, 2022
Alberta takes another step towards reducing health-care wait times
By Bacchus Barua | July 13, 2022
Patient ‘cost-sharing’ might help shorten wait times in Canada
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | June 23, 2022
B.C. can tackle health-care wait times by learning from more successful universal systems
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | June 15, 2022
Time to tackle health-care wait times in Canada
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | May 21, 2022
Long wait times for health care predated pandemic
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | April 27, 2022
Reform could shorten Nova Scotia’s brutal health-care wait times
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | April 25, 2022
Alberta’s health-care reforms don’t go far enough
By Bacchus Barua, Tegan Hill, Mackenzie Moir | March 9, 2022
COVID exacerbates—not creates—Canada’s long health-care wait times
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | December 16, 2021
New report highlights Canada’s low health-care ranking among peer countries
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | August 12, 2021
Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways
By Mackenzie Moir, Bacchus Barua | April 16, 2021
Non-COVID patients pay price for health-care backlogs
By Bacchus Barua | March 4, 2021
Health-care wait times in Canada hit record high in 2020
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | December 21, 2020
New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada
By Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | December 17, 2020
Canadian health care performs poorly compared to other countries worldwide
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | November 12, 2020
Massive surgery backlog latest symptom of Ontario’s health-care problem
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | October 15, 2020
McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | September 21, 2020
Court ruling locks patients into government-run health care
By Nadeem Esmail, Bacchus Barua | September 16, 2020
Private clinics could help Alberta reduce health-care wait times
By Bacchus Barua, Mackenzie Moir | August 5, 2020
Huge backlog of surgeries underscores need for sweeping health-care reform in B.C.
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | July 2, 2020
Kenney government postpones reforms despite COVID-related surgery backlog
By Mackenzie Moir, Alex Whalen, Bacchus Barua | June 18, 2020
Alberta should seek more autonomy in health care
By Jake Fuss, Bacchus Barua | June 17, 2020