health care reform

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Ontario needs health-care reform not more billions from taxpayers

In other countries with universal health care, patients are free to seek care privately and are not shackled to the government system.


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Alberta government must fundamentally reform health care to shorten wait times

The median wait time for surgery in Alberta was 33.5 weeks, one of the longest waits in the country.


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Saskatchewan proved that reform can shorten wait times

The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.


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Canadian policymakers should learn from Australia’s health-care system

Australia’s health-care system outperformed Canada’s on many measures including the availability of physicians and hospital beds.


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Bureaucratic shuffle not enough to fix health care in Alberta

Only 62 per cent of patients in Canada received elective care within four months compared to 99 per cent in Germany.


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Canadians face longest health-care wait times on record

The median wait time between referral from a family doctor to treatment now stands at 27.7 weeks.


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Ottawa’s new dental care benefit offers lessons for health-care reform

Among universal health-care countries, Canada ranks poorly on several key indictors including number of hospital beds.


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Canada remains poor performer among countries with universal health care

Among universal health-care countries, Canada ranked 28th out of 30 for the number of physicians available per 1,000 people.


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Nova Scotia government must consider bold health-care reform

Last year, the median wait time between referral to treatment in Nova Scotia was 58.2 weeks, dwarfing the national average.


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Health-care reform in Ontario would help patients and the economy

According to estimates, Ontarians were waiting for 369,402 procedures in 2022.