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1. Provinces should ask for more health-care freedom—not more money

   Canada already ranked among the highest health-care spenders in the world before the pandemic. ...

2. 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. ...

3. Long health-care wait times hurt Canadians in many ways

   According to the survey, an estimated 1.2 million Canadians waited for treatment last year. ...

4. 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 ...

5. Non-COVID patients pay price for health-care backlogs

   According to the Quebec government, an estimated 140,000 patients are waiting for surgery in the province. ...

6. B.C. makes progress on surgery backlog—but serious challenges remain

   The pandemic has impacted British Columbia’s health-care system in many ways. Like many provincial governments, the Horgan government postponed surgeries—specifically, more than 30,000 “ non-urgent ” scheduled surgeries between March 16 ...

7. National pharmacare poll ignores fiscal reality and alternative plans

   Every province already offers drug coverage to social assistance recipients at low or no cost. ...

8. Health-care wait times in Canada hit record high in 2020

   Appeared in National Newswatch, December 21, 2020 As we continue our battle against COVID-19, another separate health-care crisis rages on. Wait times. Patients in Canada face the longest wait time for elective surgery on record—22.6 weeks (between ...

9. New Brunswick health-care wait times among longest in Canada

   Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner, December 16, 2020 Here’s a sobering thought. Before, during and most likely after the COVID pandemic, New Brunswickers will likely continue to face long wait times for medically necessary health-care procedures. ...

10. 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 ...