| By: Nathaniel Li, Milagros Palacios and Nadeem Esmail
The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, 2024 finds that since 1997, the cost of healthcare has increased significantly, with the typical Canadian family (consisting of two parents and two children) with an average household income of $176,266 paying $17,713 for public health care this year alone.
| By: Nadeem Esmail, Steven Globerman, Bacchus Barua and Mackenzie Moir
10 Years On—Revisiting the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative finds that private clinics were a key component of the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative (SSI), established to tackle medical wait times for non-emergency but necessary surgical procedures including knee and hip replacements, which reduced waiting times in the province by 47 per cent between 2010 and 2014 (when the SSI was in place).
The Unintended Experiment with Accessory Fees in Quebec is a new study that finds the modest user fees that Quebec doctors were allowed to charge for some medical consultations and procedures—which were mostly abolished in 2017—added convenience and expanded access to services for patients in clinics.
The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2024 finds that long waits for surgery and medical treatment cost Canadians almost $3.5 billion in lost wages and lower productivity last year, with an estimated 1.2 million patients waiting for medically necessary treatment in 2023, and each losing an estimated $2,871 (on average) during working hours.
