Patients will simply bypass the Canadian system entirely by having virtual consultations with doctors abroad.
Health Care
Patients in the province faced a 34.8-week wait to receive neurosurgical treatment.
From 1993 to 2023, health-care wait times have increased by 198 per cent.
Australia’s health-care system costs less than Canada’s yet delivers more rapid access to health-care services.
Canada ranked 25th of 29 comparable countries with universal health care on the number of MRIs.
In Australia, more than 70 per cent of elective hospital admissions involving surgery occurred in a private hospital.
New Brunswickers who required medically-necessary surgeries endured a median wait for treatment of 52.6 weeks.
Countries such as Switzerland, Germany and Australia either partner with their private sector or use it as a pressure-valve for the public system.
The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.
Other countries include the private sector as a partner in the universal health-care framework.
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