Canada’s premiers are meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon this week and health-care transfers from Ottawa may be high on the agenda.
health care wait times
June 20, 2016
1:36PM
Other countries deliver high-performing universal health care at similar (or lower costs) than in Canada.
June 14, 2016
3:00AM
High level of spending has not yielded high value in return—Canada has some of the longest wait times for treatment in the developed world.
May 31, 2016
5:04PM
Canadian Medicare did not start out as a national institution. It started in one province, Saskatchewan, and spread to others over the years.
May 25, 2016
12:47PM
Health reform lessons can be learned from Saskatchewan.
May 3, 2016
2:58PM
In Saskatchewan, wait times for patients waiting more than three months for surgery dropped by 75 per cent.
May 2, 2016
9:01AM
Canadian health-care bureaucrats will likely be asked to explain Canada’s single-payer system to U.S. campaigns.
April 26, 2016
1:18PM
Long wait times costs Canadians time and money.
April 26, 2016
1:30AM
April 6, 2016
4:52PM
Federal regulations discourage provinces from emulating other countries that deliver universal health care without long wait times.