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1. Effect of Wait Times on Mortality in Canada

   Wait times for health care in Canada have lengthened considerably over the past two decades. Across 12 major medical specialties, the estimated typical wait time has risen from 9.3 weeks in 1993 to 18.2 weeks in 2013. These inordinately long waits, among ...

2. 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 ...

3. Despite spending $134 billion more, health care waits remain

     In most places, if you spend more, you receive more in goods or services. The glaring exception is Canada's government-run health care system. Consider this fact: Canada's provinces spent $134 billion more on health care between 2004 and 2012 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Canadians paying high-end prices for bargain-basement health care

   Appeared in the National Post With the deadline for filing income tax returns now passed, some Canadians may still be in shock at the size of their tax bills while others no doubt find solace in the belief that their taxes help pay for a high quality ...

6. How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2008 Report

   This 2008 edition of How Good Is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

7. How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2007 Report

   This 2007 edition of How Good Is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

8. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2006 Report

   This 2006 edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

9. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2005 Report

   This 2005 edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

10. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2004 Report

    This second edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...