State of provincial health systems has Canadians worried, poll suggests
Canadians’ assessments of their public health-care systems are rather dim when compared to the answers of 1,005 Americans surveyed, 74 per cent of whom graded their own health system as good or very good.
As provincial and territorial governments try to work through surgical and diagnostic backlogs that accumulated over the course of the pandemic, some have turned to private clinics to ease the load. The move has created a polarized debate about private delivery of public health care. Of Canadian respondents to the survey, 53 per cent said they do not want to see more privatization in their provincial health-care systems.
As the federal government negotiates with provinces to pay a larger share of the bill for health-care services, 69 per cent of Canadians who responded to the survey said their provincial governments were not putting enough money into the system. The survey cannot be assigned a margin of error because online polls are not considered truly random samples.
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