Canada\u0027s health\u002Dcare system was being held together with spit and baling wire before the COVID\u002D19 pandemic.
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Canadians, through taxes, pay some of the highest per capita costs for health care in the developed world, while facing some of the longest wait times for treatment.A shortage of chronic care beds means patients are backed up in the hallways of acute care hospitals, because chronic care patients have nowhere to go.Article content
A shortage of family doctors means families end up in hospital emergency rooms for hours on end — where costs skyrocket.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Canada’s health-care outcomes are mediocre compared to similar countries with universal health care. What are they doing right — excluding the U.S., which doesn’t have universal health care? What are we doing wrong?The provinces always demand more money from Ottawa.
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