The British Columbia government can enact major health-care reforms — without approval from the federal government — that could shorten wait times and improve patient care, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“These are things the province can do right now, without approval from Ottawa, to improve BC’s crumbling health-care system,” said Bacchus Barua, director of health policy studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author of Health-Care Reform Options for British Columbia.
In 2023, BC was one of the highest spenders (per person) on health care among the provinces outside Atlantic Canada—yet at 27.7 weeks experienced its longest median wait time for non-emergency care since 1993 (the first year wait times data were published) ...
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