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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. 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. ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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. ...

7. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2020 Report

   Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed ...

8. Canadian health care performs poorly compared to other countries worldwide

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, November 11, 2020 As we make our peace with the “new normal” and face a second wave of COVID-19, another albeit familiar challenge looms large—call it the “old normal” of Canadian health care. According to recent reports, ...

9. Private clinics could help Alberta reduce health-care wait times

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, August 5, 2020 Health-care reform is a topic of endless discussion by Canadian politicians. But action on health care is much rarer. The Kenney government recently introduced Bill-30, which contains a number of significant ...