Patients in the province waited 33.3 weeks (on average) for medically necessary treatment.
private health care
September 21, 2020
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February 4, 2020
9:19AM
Politicians and bureaucrats have less incentive to adopt innovations than private-sector organizations.
September 13, 2019
11:11AM
In Australia, Italy and the United Kingdom, private insurance allows patients a wider choice of providers and faster access to health care.
April 26, 2018
10:53AM
Even the U.K. has a robust parallel private system, often used as an alternative to the ailing National Health Service.
June 28, 2017
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In 2016, patients in Canada could expect to wait 20 weeks between GP referral and treatment.
December 22, 2016
2:28PM
Wait times remain a serious problem in all 10 provinces.
September 20, 2016
2:06PM
Our health-care system is expensive, delivers poor-to-modest results, and fails to achieve many of its laudable aspirations.
June 15, 2015
11:00AM
British Columbia’s health ministry recently announced it will invest $10 million to increase surgical capacity, with an eye on reducing wait times.
July 25, 2014
6:00AM
Professor Colleen Flood’s recent column in Globe Debate (Canada should look to Europe on health care, not the U.S) got the title right – but just about everything else wrong. Canadians would indeed benefit from a look at Europe for lessons on healthcare reform. What they should not do is fall for Ms. Flood’s erroneous jumbling of statistics that muddle reality and results in false conclusions.