Patients in the province faced a median wait time of 33.5 weeks for treatment.
healthcare performance
Higher-performing universal health-care systems fund their hospitals based on services they provide.
Canadians have some of the worst access to medical technologies, physicians and hospital beds in the developed world.
Last year the province's median wait between referral from a family doctor and receipt of surgery was 52.6 weeks.
In Australia, more than 70 per cent of elective hospital admissions involving surgery occurred in a private hospital.
At $75,000 in income, the province has the highest combined tax rate in Canada.
Among countries with universal health care, Canada has some of the lowest numbers of physicians, hospital beds and MRI machines.
In 2021/22, 41 per cent of all hospital care in Australia took place in private facilities.
In other countries with universal health care, patients are free to seek care privately and are not shackled to the government system.