Dutch residents must purchase a standard insurance package from one of several private insurers.
Health Care
Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
Canada ranked last on access to specialist visits in under four weeks.
Outpatient pharmaceuticals in Belgium are usually partially reimbursed through a third-party payer scheme.
Australian patients can choose to be treated in hospital as either a public or private patient.
If the provinces increased provincial spending, they’d either have to raise taxes or run larger budget deficits.
Government policies and regulations have created an environment hostile to research and innovation.
There's a clear imbalance between health-care spending and performance in Canada.
In most universal health-care systems, patients share the cost of care through deductibles, co-insurance and co-payments.
Patients in the province waited 26.2 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2021.
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