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1. Waiting for Health Care: A Terrible and Treatable Disease

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, LaPresse, Whitehorse Daly Star, and Flin Flon Reminder Waiting has become a defining characteristic of the Canadian health care experience. Patients stricken with illness, from mild to serious, must wait their turn for ...

2. Hate to (Br)eak it to you Walt, but it's pretty (Ba)d in Canada too

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, October 2013 The season finale of the popular U.S. drama Breaking Bad brought with it renewed interest in a viral internet meme that implicitly suggested that the entire story might not have taken place had the main ...

3. Summer health care forecast: Typical slowdown with risk of increased sluggishness

   Appeared in the Fredericton Gleaner, Sundre Round Up and Nelson Daily.com Get ready for Medicare’s annual summer slowdown, where the forecast calls for possibly poorer than usual service levels. Every year, provincial health care systems across Canada ...

4. Waiting Your Turn- Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 6th edition

   The current Critical Issues Bulletin is the Institute's sixth attempt to document the extent to which queues are being used as a means of adapting to the conflict between limited budgetary allocations and potentially unlimited demand for free health ...