Waiting for necessary medical treatment in Canada in 2022 cost 1.2 million patients almost $3.6 billion in lost wages and productivity.
Activate your Online Access Now“Valuing all hours of the week, including evenings and weekends, but excluding eight hours of sleep per night, would increase the cost of waiting to $10.9 billion, or about $8,897 per person,” the study says.
In the rest of the provinces, in descending order, the estimated costs were: $4,230 in Nova Scotia; $3,691 in New Brunswick; $3,666 in Alberta; $3,661 in Saskatchewan; $3,536 in Newfoundland and Labrador; $3,348 in Prince Edward Island; $3,213 in Quebec and $2,363 in British Columbia. Across Canada, wait times for medically necessary treatment have steadily increased, despite the fact funding for health care is the largest single expenditure by far in provincial government budgets, accounting for about 40% of all provincial spending.
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