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William Watson: Health-care numbers suggest the system is the problem
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Health care is underperforming despite new money and resources having gone into it. Read more.

provides a lot of cross-country health-sector stats. I checked out how some of ours had changed between 2010 and the latest year for which data are available, which in most cases is 2021 — admittedly not your most typical year, being the second in a pandemic.Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

Number of female physicians? Up from 31,399 to 49,286: by 57 per cent. At the same time, the number of male physicians 65-74 was up 43.5 per cent, from 5,924 to 8,498, while the number of male physicians 75 years and older rose 54.3 per cent, from 1,492 to 2,302. Number of CT scanners? Up 13.4 per cent from 2010 to 2019. Number of MRI machines? Up 34.5 per cent from 2010-2019. Number of mammography machines? Up 21 per cent 2010-2021.

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