The National Post reports that Canada’s vaunted single-payer health care system is producing longer wait times than ever before:
Canadians waited longer than they have in more a decade for non-emergency surgery this year, despite a multi-billion-dollar effort by governments to speed up medical care …
And just how bad is it?
The average wait between being referred to a specialist and receiving an elective operation was 18.3 weeks in 2006 … That is the longest delay recorded since the [Fraser] institute began studying the issue 17 years ago.
So, if throwing more money at the problem isn’t working, what will fix the problem?
As it has in previous years, the institute argued … that the way to solve the backlogs is to introduce competition between private and public providers of government-funded health care and allow a parallel private system.
Hmm … free market competition … what a concept!
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