Canadians don’t understand Ted Cruz’s health-care

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Studies in
HEALTH POLICY
December 2012
Waiting Your Turn
Wait Times for Health Care in Canada
2012 Report
by Bacchus Barua and Nadeem Esmail

Key findings

Specialist physicians surveyed across 12 specialties and 10
Canadian provinces report a total waiting time of 17.7 weeks
between referral from a general practitioner and elective
treatment in 2012.

Patients in Ontario experience the shortest wait (14.9 weeks)
followed by Quebec (16.6 weeks), and British Columbia (17.0 weeks).

Patients wait longest for orthopaedic surgery (39.6 weeks)
and wait least for medical oncology treatment (4.1 weeks).

After an appointment with a specialist, Canadians wait
approximately 3 weeks longer than what physicians believe
is “reasonable” for elective treatment.

In 2012, throughout the provinces people are waiting for an
estimated 870,462 procedures. Assuming that each person
waits for only one procedure, 2.5 percent of Canadians are
waiting for treatment.

Only 10.3 percent of patients are on waiting lists because
they requested a delay or postponement.

http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploa...-turn-2012.pdf

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Report: Thousands fled Canada for health care in 2011

A Canadian study released Wednesday found that many provinces in our neighbor to the north have seen patients fleeing the country and opting for medical treatment in the United States.

The nonpartisan Fraser Institute reported that 46,159 Canadians sought medical treatment outside of Canada in 2011, as wait times increased 104 percent — more than double — compared with statistics from 1993.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/11/re...#ixzz2hCFfe1TT

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MS patients rally for experimental treatment

Canadians with multiple sclerosis rallied across the country Wednesday to demand access to a controversial procedure not available in Canada or covered by provincial health insurance policies.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ms-pat...tment-1.875757

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Pressing on v odooley study for study for study throw down.

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Originally Posted by odooley6985

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news...re-system.html

Seems they like their system in Canada.

Until something is seriously wrong with them. Again, why did their Prime Minister come here for treatment?

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Danny Williams, the premier of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, traveled to the United States earlier this month (2010) to undergo heart valve surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. With his trip, Williams joined a long list of Canadians who have decided that they prefer American medicine to their own country's government-run health system when their lives are on the line.

Canada suffers from a scarcity of physicians. Over the last decade, about 11 percent of doctors trained in Canadian medical schools have come to the United States to practice. Physicians' salaries are set at artificially low levels by provincial authorities: The average Canadian doctor makes just 42 percent of what an American physician does.

Canadian patients also face wait times for medical procedures. Nearly 700,000 Canadians are on a waiting list for surgery or other treatments.

A Canadian patient has to wait roughly four months for the average surgical or other therapeutic treatment. Wait times were similar a decade ago - even though the government has substantially increased health care spending since then.

Canadians also lack access to advanced medical technology. Compared to other developed countries, Canada ranks 14th out of 25 nations surveyed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in access to MRIs; 19th of 26 for CT scanners; and eighth out of 21 for mammograms.

Canadian women are nearly a quarter less likely to have had a mammogram than are American women.

Publicly insured Canadians have access to half as many drugs as their countrymen with private insurance - and must wait a year longer to gain access to the few new drugs that become available.

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