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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Actually they did improve for the first two years, but rose near the end.
Total wait time from GP to specialist to treatment (courtesy Fraser Institute annual 'Waiting your turn' study - compared to 2014 the next five years were (each compared to 2014 ie. the last full year of PC gov't): -17% -10% +3% +2% +10%
Compared to 2018 in the same way (starting in 2021 since 2020 is an outlier year): +23% +28% +29% +47%
Now of course the way I'm presenting this isn't fully ingenuous, but #### it, apparently we don't get points for showing our work.
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And wait times for some surgeries went up, while some went down.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5081441/a...ait-times-ndp/
Wait times in ER did not improve.
It was a mixed bag. Which is what you’d expect - provincial governments can tweak things around the margins. But we aren’t going to see any substantial and enduring improvements to health care accessibility without systemic reform.