"[O]nly 43 per cent of Canadians were able to see a doctor or nurse on the same or next day when they needed care… Half of them had to wait two or more hours for care in the emergency room… 30 per cent of them had to wait two or more months to see a specialist … and 18 per cent had to wait four or more months for elective surgery."
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Austin Frakt, as quoted in "Why Canada’s ‘best’ health-care system just got ranked last — again" (11 October 2017), by William Watson, Financial Times
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