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07/23/2004 Archived Entry: "Free Health Care in Canada"

Posted by steve @ 12:23 AM EST [Link]

REPEAT AFTER ME: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH: Walter Williams had a good article yesterday about "free" health care such as that like we Canadians "enjoy".

The Fraser Institute, a Vancouver, B.C.-based think tank, has done yeoman's work keeping track of Canada's socialized health-care system. It has just come out with its 13th annual waiting-list survey. It shows that the average time a patient waited between referral from a general practitioner to treatment rose from 16.5 weeks in 2001-02 to 17.7 weeks in 2003. Saskatchewan had the longest average waiting time of nearly 30 weeks, while Ontario had the shortest, 14 weeks.

Read on.