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  1. B.C.’s new MRI machine won’t solve province’s wait-time problem

    The province's MRI wait time was longer than the national average. ...

  2. More money won’t fix Newfoundland and Labrador health-care system

    The province spent more per-capita on health care than any other province. ...

  3. New report highlights Canada’s low health-care ranking among peer countries

    Canada ranked last on timely access to specialist consultations and elective/non-emergency surgery. ...

  4. Alberta operates remarkably inefficient health-care system with huge price tag

    The province had the capacity to perform more than 1.3 million CT exams but only 419,000 were actually performed. ...

  5. Wait times—the other health-care crisis

    The elective surgery queue cost 1.2 million Canadians a total of $2.8 billion in lost wages and productivity. ...

  6. Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways

    According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year. ...

  7. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2021

    One measure of the privately borne cost of wait times is the value of time that is lost while waiting for treatment. Valuing only hours lost during the average work week, the estimated cost of waiting for care in Canada for patients who were in ...

  8. B.C. makes progress on surgery backlog—but serious challenges remain

    The pandemic has impacted British Columbia’s health-care system in many ways. Like many provincial governments, the Horgan government postponed surgeries—specifically, more than 30,000 “ non-urgent ” scheduled surgeries between March 16 ...

  9. Health-care wait times in Canada hit record high in 2020

    Appeared in National Newswatch, December 21, 2020 As we continue our battle against COVID-19, another separate health-care crisis rages on. Wait times. Patients in Canada face the longest wait time for elective surgery on record—22.6 weeks (between ...

  10. New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada

    Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, December 16, 2020 Here’s a sobering thought. Before, during and most likely after the COVID pandemic, New Brunswickers will likely continue to face long wait times for medically necessary health-care procedures. ...