health care wait times

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In France, universally accessible hospital care is delivered by public, not-for-profit and for-profit hospitals.


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Canadians have long suffered through long wait times for health care.


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Canada’s finance ministers are currently meeting in Ottawa to discuss federal health transfers.


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The estimated wait this year between referral from a GP to receipt of treatment was 20 weeks—the longest ever in the history of our survey.


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Most Canadians spend hours in waiting rooms to meet even routine medical needs.

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Canada has fewer MRI and CT scanners than the average high-income OECD country with universal health care.


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If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.


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Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system.


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Our health-care system is expensive, delivers poor-to-modest results, and fails to achieve many of its laudable aspirations.