New Brunswickers who required medically-necessary surgeries endured a median wait for treatment of 52.6 weeks.
Health Care
Countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Australia either partner with their private sector or use it as a pressure-valve for the public system.
The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.
Other countries include the private sector as a partner in the universal health-care framework.
The province's average wait time for health care grew from 18.5 weeks in 2008 to 33.5 weeks in 2023.
Among universal health-care countries, Canada ranks poorly on several key indictors including number of hospital beds.
Canadians can expect to wait nearly six months from general practitioner referral to treatment by a psychiatrist.
Canadians may experience more limited access to new drugs and poorer health-care outcomes.
Wait times in the province more than doubled from 10.4 weeks in 1993 to 25.8 weeks in 2022.
In 2022, the wait between a specialist visit and treatment was 27.4 weeks.
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