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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. Ontario’s ‘delisting’ of medical services underscores ability of provinces to tailor care

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, August 28, 2019 Premier Doug Ford is in a pinch. The ballooning growth of Ontario’s expected health-care spending is thwarting his plan to balance the budget within five years. A recent report indicated that, in the absence of ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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, ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2016

   In 2015, an estimated 45,619 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment outside Canada. Physicians in British Columbia reported the highest proportion of patients (in a province) receiving treatment abroad (1.5%). The largest number of patients ...

10. 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 ...