Governments can improve patient and physician health by reducing ‘red tape’

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business found that Canadian physicians spend 18.5 million hours each year on unnecessary administrative work. That’s the equivalent of about 55 million patient visits.
The health and well-being of physicians and patients hinges on our ability to untangle the bureaucratic web that currently constrains our health-care system, write Kathleen Ross and Dan Kelly.

Cold and flu season might not be the only reason you’re finding it hard to see your family doctor—assuming you even have such a practitioner in the first place.

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