Countries with shorter wait times do universal health care differently than Canada.
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April 27, 2023
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Patients in the province could expect to wait 25.8 weeks (on average) between a specialist referral and receipt of treatment.
April 6, 2023
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Patients needing neurosurgery faced a typical wait of more than a year.
April 4, 2023
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January 18, 2023
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Patients in the province faced a median wait of 33.3 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment.
July 15, 2022
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Patients in the province waited 26.2 weeks between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment in 2021.
July 13, 2022
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In 2021, the median wait in Alberta between seeing a general practitioner and receiving treatment was 32.1 weeks.
June 23, 2022
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The vast majority of universal health-care systems worldwide employ some form of cost-sharing.
May 21, 2022
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The inability to provide timely access to care precedes the pandemic.