Fraser Forum

Health Care

10:25AM
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Premiers simply demand more money while ignoring possible health-care solutions

If the provinces increased provincial spending, they’d either have to raise taxes or run larger budget deficits.


1:48PM
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Pandemic showed that Canada needs a thriving biopharmaceutical industry

Government policies and regulations have created an environment hostile to research and innovation.


11:43AM
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More successful universal health-care countries employ some form of cost-sharing

In most universal health-care systems, patients share the cost of care through deductibles, co-insurance and co-payments.


7:10PM
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B.C. court denies patients the ability to seek private care

Patients in the province waited 26.2 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2021.


2:30PM
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Comparing Canada’s health-care system with other countries, Part 2: Utilization of Resources

On a key measure of hospital discharges, Canada ranked last out of 27 countries.


10:21AM
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Canada’s chronic health-care problems will likely persist post-pandemic

Canada ranked 25th out of 26 countries for the number of acute care beds.


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