healthcare performance

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Alberta government should reform hospital funding to help shorten wait times

Patients in the province faced a median wait time of 33.5 weeks for treatment.


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Manitoba woman’s plight typical of Canada’s broken health-care system

Higher-performing universal health-care systems fund their hospitals based on services they provide.


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Ottawa must amend Canada Health Act to allow meaningful health-care reform

Canadians have some of the worst access to medical technologies, physicians and hospital beds in the developed world.


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New Brunswickers will endure long health-care waits until government enacts real reform

Last year the province's median wait between referral from a family doctor and receipt of surgery was 52.6 weeks.


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Canadian politicians should learn about Australia’s better health-care system

In Australia, more than 70 per cent of elective hospital admissions involving surgery occurred in a private hospital.


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P.E.I. government’s policies hurting health-care recruitment effort

At $75,000 in income, the province has the highest combined tax rate in Canada.


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Bill Maher is right about Canadian health care

Among countries with universal health care, Canada has some of the lowest numbers of physicians, hospital beds and MRI machines.


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B.C. government must fundamentally reform health care to shorten wait times

In 2021/22, 41 per cent of all hospital care in Australia took place in private facilities.


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Ontario needs health-care reform not more billions from taxpayers

In other countries with universal health care, patients are free to seek care privately and are not shackled to the government system.