“Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2017 Report,” Fraser Institute

“Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the lengthy queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for over two decades—surveyed specialist physicians across 12 specialties and 10 provinces. This edition of Waiting Your Turn indicates that, overall, waiting times for medically necessary treatment have in-creased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 21.2 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 20.0 weeks reported in 2016. This year’s wait time—the longest ever recorded in this survey’s history—is 128% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.”

 

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

“Bernie Sanders’s model system makes patients wait and wait” says the Wall Street Journal. “Free” health care has its costs.

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2017 Report

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