The Wait Is the Price: Quiet Rationing Plagues Canadian Health Care

The Wait Is the Price: Quiet Rationing Plagues Canadian Health Care

Last month, a video was trending on social media showing a Canadian woman explaining that she had a 13-month wait for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test to check for a brain tumor. On X, formerly known as Twitter, community notes popped up to say that the video was misleading. “Priority is decided by physicians, not the province,” wrote one commenter. Another noted that wait times did vary by province. None of this, however, detracts from t…

Canada: Waiting times are used to ration services to patients in socialised healthcare systems

In Canada’s health care system, the time between referral and treatment has tripled since 1993. The supply of doctors, MRIs and hospital beds can’t keep up with tax-subsidised demand for care. So, the system rations health services through waiting times. As Vincent Geloso explains, this problem arises because Canada, as does the UK, has a

Despite the introduction of medical regulation by Samu in more and more hospitals, the waiting time for emergencies continues to increase. And with it the patient's feeling of deterioration

“The line no one sees” becomes visible in project to highlight the waiting for eye treatment in Brazil

Cataract surgery has become the largest queue in the entire SUS (Brazilian Public Unified Health System) among elective processes, reaching an impressive number of 167.5 thousand people waiting for the procedure – even though it is considered simple, safe and quick when performed by experienced surgeons, with an average duration of 10 minutes. To shed light on the fact and seek a possible solution for thousands of patients who suffer from this p…

Men’s mental health group sounds the alarm about ER wait times

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