Did you know that the Fraser Institute publishes an annual review of hospital waiting times in Canada?
Here’s the 2009 report: WaitingYourTurn_2009.pdf
Excerpt:
The Fraser Institute’s nineteenth annual waiting list survey found that Canada-wide waiting times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments decreased in 2009. Total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and treatment, averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, fell from 17.3 weeks in 2008 to 16.1 weeks in 2009.
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Despite a two week fall from the high reached in 2007, the total wait time remains high, both historically and internationally. Compared to 1993, the total waiting time in 2009 is 73 percent longer.
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Finally, the promise of the Canadian health care system is not being realized. On the contrary, a profusion of research reveals that cardiovascular surgery queues are routinely jumped by the famous and politically-connected, that sub urban and rural residents con front barriers to access not encountered by their urban counter parts, and that low-income Canadians have less access to specialists.
I posted this to reddit in /r/politics. It was downvoted into oblivion and received one comment: “I don’t trust political think tanks to be impartial.”
WTF kind of willful ignorance is this?