Canada now has the most expensive universal health-care system in the world.
waiting for health care
July 17, 2023
12:35PM
An estimated 181,333 Albertans faced a median wait of 19.2 weeks between specialist consultation and treatment.
June 1, 2023
3:30AM
The province's median wait time between referral to a specialist and receipt of treatment was 43.3 weeks.
May 19, 2023
9:38AM
The median wait between specialist visit to treatment in the province exceeded what physicians consider reasonable by more than one month.
May 17, 2023
2:30AM
Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.
April 27, 2023
5:30PM
Patients in the province could expect to wait 25.8 weeks (on average) between a specialist referral and receipt of treatment.
April 6, 2023
5:26PM
Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
February 8, 2023
8:00AM
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
January 23, 2023
8:10AM
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 20.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2022.
January 18, 2023
9:03AM
Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.