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Ontarians pay high price for health-care waits

Patients in the province face a median wait of 20.3 weeks for medically necessary care.


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Ontarians can expect to wait 15.6 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and treatment.

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If history is any guide, Ontario voters should not expect meaningful discussion of health policy during the upcoming provincial election campaign. Indeed, none of the party leaders have so far offered any feasible solutions to one of the province’s most pressing challenges - the unsustainable growth of government health care spending.


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Ontario’s new health premium, which kicked in last month, is not the answer to the province’s health care financing troubles. In fact, the premiums -- which now cost taxpayers between $150 and $450 per person, depending on income -- will have to triple by the 2007-08 budget-year if revenues are going to keep up with the rate of growth in health care spending.