healthcare performance

10:59AM
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B.C. government sends patients to U.S. while fighting private options in B.C.
The total wait between referral to treatment for oncology in B.C. is now about twice as long as the Canadian average.

9:07AM
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Alberta’s bureaucratic shuffle bears little resemblance to necessary health-care reforms

Australia, Switzerland and Germany all deliver more timely universal care with comparable levels of spending to Canada.


11:51AM
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B.C.’s health-care wait times only getting longer

Wait times in the province more than doubled from 10.4 weeks in 1993 to 25.8 weeks in 2022.


2:30AM
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Nova Scotia government must consider bold health-care reform

Last year, the median wait time between referral to treatment in Nova Scotia was 58.2 weeks, dwarfing the national average.


2:19PM
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Canada’s high level of health-care spending not producing high performance

Canada ranked 28th out of 30 universal health-care countries with 2.8 physicians per 1,000 people.


11:50AM
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Health-care reform in Ontario would help patients and the economy

According to estimates, Ontarians were waiting for 369,402 procedures in 2022.


7:30AM
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Canadians already pay ‘membership fee’ for health care

A typical family with an average household income of $169,296 will pay an estimated $16,950 for public health care this year.


8:59AM
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New health minister should not repeat predecessor’s mistakes

Canada now has the most expensive universal health-care system in the world.