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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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, ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. If health care innovation is key, set the provinces free

   Appeared in Toronto Sun, September 6, 2016 In a recent speech to the Canadian Medical Association, federal Health Minister Jane Philpott acknowledged what few politicians seem willing to recognize—Canada’s health-care system is in desperate need of repair ...

9. Another reminder that Canada’s health-care system is failing patients

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, April 11, 2016 Shorter waits for hip-fracture repair, and eight out of 10 Canadians receiving “priority procedures” within government-defined benchmarks. Sounds pretty good, right? However, these highlights ...

10. The death of timely health care: a post-mortem

    Appeared in the National Post, December 22, 2015 A few days ago we released our annual report measuring wait times across Canada. Much has already been said about the national results—that we’ve seen no improvement over the past three years, that this ...