As shown in a new Fraser Institute report, the increase since 1993 is truly stunning to behold.
Amid the collapse of Canada’s health care system, Canadians are waiting longer than ever for treatment.
According to a new Fraser Institute, wait times are now almost 200% higher than in 1993.
As the chart below shows, the increase is truly stunning:
What does ‘collapse’ really mean?
When we talk about a health care system ‘collapsing,’ it often makes us think of something dramatic. After all, ‘collapse’ is usually a word that conjures up images of a building or bridge falling apart.
But when a system collapses, it really just degrades to a much lower level of functioning and keeps getting worse.
There will always be some hospitals, some doctors, some nurses, and some care provided, but it will be tougher and tougher to access, regardless of how ‘universal’ we are told it is.
And that is what is happening today.
As the Fraser Institute report indicates, things have never been this bad in all their years of study:
“Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care. In order to document the queues for visits to specialists and for diagnostic and surgical procedures in the country, the Fraser Institute has—for almost three 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 increased since last year. Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 27.4 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 25.6 weeks reported in 2021. This year’s wait time is the longest wait time recorded in this survey’s history and is 195% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.”
Every year, we spend more and more money on the socialized health care system, and it just keeps getting worse.
And now, state-assisted-suicide is increasingly ‘filling the gaps’ in the health care system, being offered to people who are unable to get the care they need.
As the evidence above makes clear, throwing more money at a broken system won’t fix it.
Only be opening up Canadian healthcare to more private delivery of services can we incentivize the innovation that is needed, and make it more financially rewarding for doctors and nurses to stay in Canada, rather than head to the United States or other countries where they can double or triple their salary with ease.
Confronting the need to reform a broken system is never easy, but it’s far better than allowing Canadians to suffer under the untenable status quo.
Spencer Fernando
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