The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.
healthcare performance
Other countries include the private sector as a partner in the universal health-care framework.
Australia’s health-care system outperformed Canada’s on many measures including the availability of physicians and hospital beds.
Ottawa's plan won’t replace existing provincial and territorial programs that already cover some oral health services.
The province's health-care wait times are longer than the national average.
The province's median wait between referral and receipt of treatment was 33.5 weeks.
The median wait time between referral from a family doctor to treatment now stands at 27.7 weeks.
Australia, Switzerland and Germany all deliver more timely universal care with comparable levels of spending to Canada.
Wait times in the province more than doubled from 10.4 weeks in 1993 to 25.8 weeks in 2022.