Canada can tackle growing backlog of surgeries with funding reforms and expanded role for private-care providers within public system

Tackling the surgery backlog in the Canadian provinces: Some lessons from the international experience


VANCOUVER—Unlike Canada, other universal health-care systems around the world have  managed to reduce their surgical backlogs by using the private sector to their advantage and incentivizing greater efficiency through alternative funding models, according to a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

“Canadians were already dealing with a record-long medical wait-times before the COVID-19 pandemic, which exacerbated an already bad situation,” said Yanick Labrie, Fraser Institute senior fellow and author of Tackling the surgery backlog in the Canadian provinces: Some lessons from the international experience.


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