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1. 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. ...

2. Policymakers should consider health-care reform in post-COVID world

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, April 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis has led many provinces to take drastic measures to both limit the spread of the virus and ensure scarce medical resources are available, including cancelling thousands of elective ...

3. 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 ...

4. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2018 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. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2017 Report

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

6. Canada’s health-care wait times costing patients many millions in lost time, wages

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, June 2, 2017 For more than two decades, the Fraser Institute has annually surveyed specialist physicians across Canada to estimate how long patients wait for treatment. Our latest survey found that in 2016, overall, ...

7. Report reinforces Canada’s dire health-care wait times situation

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, April 6, 2017 The Canadian Institute for Health Information’s [CIHI] annual tracking of wait times for priority procedures is out. Contrary to the CIHI news release’s sugar-coated headline that “[m]ost Canadians receive ...

8. When compared to similar countries, Canada’s health-care wait times are the worst

   Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, February 21, 2017 Whether you ask physicians or patients, the answer is the same—Canada is failing to provide timely access to medical care. The U.S.-based Commonwealth Fund, in conjunction with the Canadian Institute of ...

9. Mo money, mo health-care problems

   The classic song “Mo Money Mo Problems” by late rapper Notorious B.I.G. is a fitting way to describe the current state of federal health transfers from Ottawa to the provinces. As federal transfers have grown over the past decade, Canada ...

10. Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2016 Report

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