health care wait times

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Canada has fewer MRI and CT scanners than the average high-income OECD country with universal health care.


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If provincial finance ministers are convinced they require more funding for health care, they have the ability to raise that revenue themselves.


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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.


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Our health-care system is expensive, delivers poor-to-modest results, and fails to achieve many of its laudable aspirations.


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Dr. Brian Day, former head of the Canadian Medical Association, is currently fighting to allow private treatment for patients.


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Aspects of the Canada Health Act discourage provinces from emulating policies found in Australia, the United Kingdom, France and Germany.


9:09AM
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On health care, despite a high level of spending, Canadians have comparatively poor access to technology and doctors, and long wait times for surgery.


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Canada’s premiers are meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon this week and health-care transfers from Ottawa may be high on the agenda.


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Other countries deliver high-performing universal health care at similar (or lower costs) than in Canada.

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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.