Private for-profit hospitals comprise 39 per cent of hospitals in Australia and 43 per cent in Germany.
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In the Commonwealth Fund’s rankings of health-care systems, Canada scored a dismal ninth out of 11 countries.
More than 13 per cent of patients said they were adversely affected by waiting for non-emergency surgery.
If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.
Aspects of the Canada Health Act discourage provinces from emulating policies found in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Province contracted-out select day surgeries to private clinics, expanding total surgical capacity in a short period of time.
Years of adhering to the status-quo and simply pumping money into the system has done little to address the fundamental problems with Canada's health-care system.