How long will you have to wait for treatment when health care is free?

Waiting Your Turn: Hospital Waiting Lists in Canada, 15th EditionPublication Date: October 2005


Publication Format: Critical Issues Bulletins Author(s): Nadeem Esmail, Director, Health System Performance Studies, The Fraser Institute


Email: nadeeme@fraserinstitute.ca


Telephone: (403) 216-7175 ext 222


Dr. Michael Walker, Senior Fellow and President, The Fraser Institute Foundation


Email: michaelw@fraserinstitute.ca


Telephone: (604) 714-4545


Executive Summary: The Fraser Institute’s fifteenth annual waiting list survey found that Canada-wide waiting times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments fell slightly in 2005, making this the first reduction in the total wait for treatment measured in Canada since 1993. Total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and treatment, averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, fell from 17.9 weeks in 2004 back to the 17.7 weeks last seen in 2003. This small nationwide improvement in access reflects waiting time decreases in 5 provinces, while concealing increases in waiting time in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland.





Among the provinces, Ontario achieved the shortest total wait in 2005, 16.3 weeks, with Manitoba (16.6 weeks), and Alberta (16.8 weeks) next shortest. Saskatchewan, despite a dramatic 7.8 week reduction in the total wait time, exhibited the longest total wait, 25.5 weeks; the next longest waits were found in New Brunswick (24.5 Weeks) and Newfoundland (22.3 weeks). ISBN/ISSN 1480-3666





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How long will you have to wait for treatment when health care is free?
Those numbers are re: elective procedures.





There's normally no reason that an elective procedure can't wait for a time as long as there's good treatment in the interim. Canadians are NOT dying because of wait times. When Canadians need emergency procedures, they are done promptly. When a case is critical, it is looked after promptly. If you want your gall-bladder removed because you have a gallstone, then you'll be put on a diet with appropriate meds and be asked to wait 4-6 weeks for surgery. The surgery will be first rate and there will be no charge for it.





45 million people in the U.S. have no insurance. 18000 people in the U.S. die every year for one reason and one reason alone; they had no insurance coverage and they didn't have the money for the treatments they needed.





Countless more Americans endure many years of suffering because they can't get the medical help they need, and millions who do get the help end up claiming bankruptcy or going broke in an effort to pay impossible medical bills.





Wait times are no big deal for most Canadians, because they only come into effect in less critical cases, and in those case there is always alternative medical care and monitoring throughout the wait. When the cases are critical, there is little or no wait time.
Reply:I don't know. You appear to have the statistics for Canada.
Reply:you really only hear what you want to hear don't you? How about this those of us in the working class may have to wait a little longer but we won't have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars just to stay alive.
Reply:Priceless, the left don't believe in role models
Reply:Our mail men can't even deliver the mail on time or not damaged, why would we turn over health care to the same people?
Reply:A long time.


Thousands and thousands of Canadians and Europeans die each year waiting for their Free Health care.





That's why people from Canada %26amp; Europe who have money, come to the US for treatment.
Reply:I have asked this question and received Idiotic answers from liberals

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