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1. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2021

   Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their ...

2. Timely Access to New Pharmaceuticals in Canada, the United States, and the European Union

   Modern medicines not only treat illnesses that could not previously be treated, but also represent a substitution for older, less efficient, and less effective methods of treatment. Newer medicines can expand access to better health through reductions in ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2020

   Comparing the performance of different countries’ health-care systems provides an opportunity for policy makers and the general public to determine how well Canada’s health-care system is performing relative to its international peers. Overall, the data ...

6. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2020

   Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their ...

7. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2020

   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. COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada

   COVID creating a backlog of cancelled elective surgeries in Canada ...

9. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2019 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 ...

10. Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2019

    Comparing the performance of different countries’ health-care systems provides an opportunity for policy makers and the general public to determine how well Canada’s health-care system is performing relative to its international peers. Overall, the data ...