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B.C. woman’s plight underscores need for urgent health-care reform

Patients in the province faced a 34.8-week wait to receive neurosurgical treatment.


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Cost-sharing could improve patient accountability in Canada

In Sweden, patients usually pay a nominal fee for family doctor appointments.


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Private contracts—one important step towards health-care reform

Last year, Canadians could expect to wait 25.6 weeks from referral by a family physician to elective surgical care.


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More successful universal health-care countries employ some form of cost-sharing

In most universal health-care systems, patients share the cost of care through deductibles, co-insurance and co-payments.