According to the Frasier Institute, waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian healthcare.
In the 2018 report, “Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada”, specialist physicians surveyed report a median wait time of almost 20 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment, more than twice as long as in 1993, when it was just over nine weeks.
Canadians have some of the longest wait times for specialist appointments in the world. This means rising costs and delayed recovery.
