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Sep 7, 2022 · The findings of a new Angus Reid Institute cross-border survey suggest Canadians are significantly less satisfied with their access to health care than their American neighbours.
Sep 7, 2022 · The study, which surveyed nearly 3,500 Canadians and Americans combined, also found that Canadian confidence in our health-care system is currently lower than American confidence in theirs,...
Feb 27, 2024 · A Toronto-based research team met with and surveyed some 10,000 Canadians about the state of the health-care system — and what they found is deep dissatisfaction and frustration with primary care...
Jul 12, 2024 · Canadians deserve better access to health care services and affordable medicines, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. However, the health system in Canada has been facing significant challenges, such as overwhelmed emergency rooms, lack of access to a family doctor, and health care workers under enormous strain.
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The Canadian health system hasn’t always been this way; it was born out of need in a time of economic crisis. In 1944, voters in the rural province of Saskatchewan, hard-hit during the Great Depression, elected a democratic socialist government after politicians had campaigned for a basic right to health care. At the time, people felt “that the sys...
Today, severe job losses do not leave people completely uninsured in Canada, said Colleen Flood, who directs the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics. Amid the pandemic, Canadians can get tested for the virus when they need it and they don’t fear that the cost of a test or treatment could financially break them if COVID-1...
In 2019, health expenses drove more Americans into bankruptcy than any other reason, according to the American Journal of Public Health. That same year, health care consumed 17 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, a greater share than in any other developed country, including Canada, which was at 10.8 percent, according to the latest OECD da...
In early March, Naresh Tinani’s 78-year-old mother had been waiting four months to replace her knee cap. Age and osteoporosis had taken their toll, and she was ready for the relief an elective surgery would bring, he said. She underwent diagnostic tests and consulted with doctors. Within three days of her operation, Tinani said, Canada entered lock...
Jan 20, 2021 · According to a 2017 study by the U.S.-based Commonwealth Fund, Canada ranked ninth out of 11 advanced countries for the quality of its health-care system — ahead only of France and the U.S., which came dead last. The United Kingdom came first, followed by Australia and the Netherlands.
Jan 9, 2022 · The strain on Canadian hospitals has prompted some analysis that Canada's more cautious attitude exhibited during the pandemic is driven by a hard practical truth that we simply can't keep...
