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1. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2017 edition

   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. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2017

   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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Estimating the price of public health care for Canadian families

   Last year, the amount of money spent by provincial governments on Canada’s public health-care system accounted for about seven per cent of the country’s economy and was the single-largest item of their respective budgets (representing 40 ...

6. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2016 edition

   Main conclusions: 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 ...

7. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2016 edition

   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 the queue ...

8. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance: 2015 Edition

   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 ...

9. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2015 edition

   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 the queue ...

10. Leaving Canada for Medical Care, 2015

    In 2014, more than 52,000 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment outside Canada. Physicians in British Columbia reported the highest proportion of patients (in a province) receiving treatment abroad (1.6%). The largest number of patients ...