Report Suggests Tackling Surgery Backlog With European Strategies

Radiologists supervise a patient undergoing an MRI using a new generation of hybrid camera named PET-MRI scanner at the Mondor Hospital in Creteil, France, on June 5, 2019. Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images

If Canada’s health system allowed more competition and made funding follow the patient, it could improve health care, suggests a new report by the Fraser Institute, a non-profit think tank.

Released on April 4, “Tackling the Surgery Backlog in the Canadian Provinces” makes the case that even before COVID, there were major problems in the health-care system.