Hospitals in Switzerland compete with one another for patients.
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April 12, 2018
1:11PM
Last year in B.C., the average wait time between referral to treatment was 26.6 weeks.
March 1, 2018
1:27PM
In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical.
November 27, 2017
1:54PM
Australia, Germany and the Netherlands all allow more private-sector involvement in health care than Canada.
August 2, 2017
1:29PM
In the Commonwealth Fund’s rankings of health-care systems, Canada scored a dismal ninth out of 11 countries.
July 26, 2017
1:41PM
New survey corroborates troubling health-care wait-times trend.
June 7, 2017
2:23PM
Albertans wait 22.9 weeks for treatment—five weeks longer than 15 years ago.
May 11, 2017
3:00AM
Queen’s Park is throwing money at the problem and hoping it will disappear.
November 10, 2016
12:27PM
Canada has fewer MRI and CT scanners than the average high-income OECD country with universal health care.