Health Care

— May 9, 2023
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The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2023

The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2023 is a new study that finds an estimated 1.2 million Canadian patients waited for medically necessary treatment last year, and each lost an estimated $2,925 (on average) due to lost wages and reduced productivity during working hours. Put differently, long waits for surgery and medical treatment cost Canadians almost $3.6 billion in lost wages and productivity last year.

— Apr 12, 2023
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Waiting for New Medicines: How Does Canada Compare to the United States and Europe?

Waiting for New Medicines: How Does Canada Compare to the United States and Europe? finds that, due to government barriers, Canadians have access to fewer new drugs than Americans and Europeans.

— Apr 4, 2023
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Tackling the Surgery Backlog in the Canadian Provinces: Some Lessons from International Experience is a new study that finds unlike Canada, other countries with universal health-care systems—including Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands—have managed to reduce their medical wait-times by using the private sector to its advantage and incentivizing greater efficiency through alternative funding models.

— Dec 8, 2022
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Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 Report

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2022 is a new study that finds Canada’s health-care wait times reached 27.4 weeks in 2022—the longest ever recorded—and 195 per cent higher than the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking medical wait times. Before this year, the longest recorded wait time was 25.6 weeks in 2021. Prince Edward Island has the longest wait times in the country this year, and Ontario recorded the shortest wait time, which was still more than five months long.

— Nov 10, 2022
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Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2022

Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2022 is a new study that compares the performance of Canada’s health-care system to its international peers. The data shows that despite Canada being among the most expensive universal-access health-care systems in the OECD, the country has some of the lowest numbers of doctors, hospital beds, medical technologies, and longest wait times.

— Aug 16, 2022
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An Evaluation of the Proposed PMPRB Amendments

An Evaluation of the Proposed PMPRB Amendments is a new study that finds Ottawa's amendments to the Patented Medicines Regulations and subsequent drug-pricing changes may result in lower costs, but will also likely reduce Canadians’ access to life-saving pharmaceuticals and potentially discourage investment in Canada’s pharmaceutical sector.

— Aug 9, 2022
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The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2022

The Price of Public Healthcare, 2022 finds that a typical Canadian family with an average household income of $156,086 will pay $15,847 for public health care this year, and that health-care costs have increased 210.3 per cent since 1997 compared to a 116.3 per cent increase in average incomes.

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