Canada has fewer MRI and CT scanners than the average high-income OECD country with universal health care.
health care wait times
If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.
Donald Trump’s characterization of Canada’s health-care system as “catastrophic” may be political hyperbole, but we cannot ignore the huge problems that plague our system.
Our health-care system is expensive, delivers poor-to-modest results, and fails to achieve many of its laudable aspirations.
Dr. Brian Day, former head of the Canadian Medical Association, is currently fighting to allow private treatment for patients.
Aspects of the Canada Health Act discourage provinces from emulating policies found in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
On health care, despite a high level of spending, Canadians have comparatively poor access to technology and doctors, and long wait times for surgery.
Canada’s premiers are meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon this week and health-care transfers from Ottawa may be high on the agenda.
High level of spending has not yielded high value in return—Canada has some of the longest wait times for treatment in the developed world.