private health care

11:33AM
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Ottawa’s hostility toward private health care out of step with most Canadians

Last year, Canadians could expect a median wait of 27.4 weeks between referral to a specialist and receipt of treatment.


11:30PM
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Private contracts—one important step towards health-care reform

Last year, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks from referral by a family physician to elective surgical care.


11:43AM
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More successful universal health-care countries employ some form of cost-sharing

In most universal health-care systems, patients share the cost of care through deductibles, co-insurance and co-payments.


7:10PM
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B.C. court denies patients the ability to seek private care

Patients in the province waited 26.2 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2021.


3:17PM
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Canada’s long-term care system lacks choice and competition

Policymakers in Canada should learn how other countries with older populations are mitigating demographic challenges.


9:18AM
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Campaign fearmongering on health care ignores experiences of other universal care countries
Last year, 62 per cent of patients in Canada waited more than four months for a specialist appointment compared to 31 per cent in the Netherlands.

10:01AM
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McNeil government should allow private sector to help reduce surgery backlog

Patients in the province waited 33.3 weeks (on average) for medically necessary treatment.


9:19AM
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Canada must rethink restrictions on private health insurance—for the sake of patients
Politicians and bureaucrats have less incentive to adopt innovations than private-sector organizations.