Last year in B.C., the average wait time between referral to treatment was 26.6 weeks.
Health Care
April 6, 2018
9:14AM
In Switzerland, the health-care system features managed competition among insurance companies and health-care providers.
March 1, 2018
1:27PM
In most countries with universal health care, patients share the cost of treatment—surgical or pharmaceutical.
February 27, 2018
10:56AM
The province will spend nearly $22 billion on health care in 2018/19.
February 7, 2018
5:15AM
Unlike Canadians, Germans do not face long wait times for health care.
January 12, 2018
12:33PM
Insurance companies are the principal beneficiaries of Ontario’s new publicly-funded pharmacare program.
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.
July 12, 2017
9:35AM
Single-payer health-care systems are often only able to lower costs by rationing services.
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