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Sick health care system made Canadians lose more than $3-billion in economic activity: Fraser Institute
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
1 August 2012
the Fraser Institute, which estimated that last year Canada lost $1.08-billion in business-day economic activity due to excessive wait times at hospitals and time gaps between visits to specialists and receipt of treatment. Long waits in emergency rooms and forcing Canadians to take time out their work days to visit multiple doctors has a cumulative effect not only on the quality of their care but on the overall productivity of the workforce, says the report.
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