Canada’s health-care report card shows way forward

Politically mandated universal access to health care in Canada, while still favourably perceived in terms of quality, does not translate into universal perception of timely access to care, the prerequisite to effective patient-centred care.

Canada's federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, pictured in a Hill scrum.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY TERRENCE MONTAGUE

March 13, 2017

For almost 20 years, consecutive Health Care in Canada (HCIC) surveys have provided data and analyses that constitute Canada’s health-care report card. Overall, the reports suggest that, while legislators and administrators at all levels of the system fiddle, they do so as care services to Canadia...

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