health care wait times

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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.


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Canadian Medicare did not start out as a national institution. It started in one province, Saskatchewan, and spread to others over the years.


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In Saskatchewan, wait times for patients waiting more than three months for surgery dropped by 75 per cent.


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Canadian health-care bureaucrats will likely be asked to explain Canada’s single-payer system to U.S. campaigns.


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Federal regulations discourage provinces from emulating other countries that deliver universal health care without long wait times.


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Hospital care in Germany is delivered by 833 public, 1,040 not-for-profit, and 1,356 for-profit hospitals.


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Only four provinces allow people to buy private insurance for the kinds of health care provided by the government system.