Canada’s health-care wait times hit 20 weeks in 2016—longest ever recorded

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2016

By Fraser Institute —— Bio and Archives--November 23, 2016

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VANCOUVER—Canadian patients waited longer than ever this year for medical treatment, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank. The study, an annual survey of physicians from across Canada, reports a median wait time of 20 weeks—the longest ever recorded—and more than double the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking wait times for medically necessary elective treatments.

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