Canada Spends Big on Healthcare, yet Ranks Near Bottom on Wait Times, Doctors Available: Report

Canada Spends Big on Healthcare, yet Ranks Near Bottom on Wait Times, Doctors Available: Report
A health-care worker is seen outside the Emergency Department of the Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver on March 30, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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Even though Canada spends more on healthcare than most other developed nations, it still has some of the fewest doctors, hospital beds, and medical technologies available to patients—and the longest wait times, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute think tank released on Tuesday.
The report, which is the fifth edition of the think tank’s analysis of health care, seeks to compare the performance of Canada with 27 other developed countries in terms of the amount of money spent on its universal health care system, and the eventual value derived and offered to Canadian citizens.