Nearly half of all Canadians say their access to medical care has worsened over the last few years, according to survey by public-relations firm Navigator
Ambulances are parked in the ambulance bay at Windsor Regional Hospital - Ouellette Campus in December, 2023. In Ontario, the Progressive Conservative government is outsourcing more publicly funded endoscopies, MRI scans, CT scans, and cataract surgeries to private clinics.Nearly half of all Canadians say their access to medical care has worsened over the last few years, with two-thirds experiencing what they consider an unreasonable wait for surgeries and other services, a new survey has found.
Jaime Watt, the executive chairman of Navigator, said his firm conducted the survey in hopes of learning what Canadians wanted as consumers of medical care rather than as taxpayers or citizens. Respondents to Navigator’s survey signalled more openness than in the past to health services delivered by private companies and by professionals other than doctors, including pharmacists and nurse practitioners. Sixty-nine per cent agreed some health care services should be provided by the private sector, up five points since the last time Navigator asked the question in 2022.
The Navigator survey found strong support for turning to the private or non-governmental sectors to tackle surgical backlogs, but 80 per cent said their support was contingent on those operations continuing to be fully publicly funded. Still, Susan Innes, Navigator’s lead researcher on the study, said she was surprised at the share of people who were open to the idea. “The thing that jumped out at us was people’s willingness to pay for things that were much more critical, like emergency room care,” she said. Thirty-six per cent said they were willing to pay to avoid waiting in the ER, while 40 per cent said the same for MRI scans, and 44 per cent for cancer screening.
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