Nearly Half of Canadians Avoiding Hospitals Because of Wait Times

Around 47 percent of Canadians choose to stay home rather than seek medical treatment with a doctor or hospital because of long wait times, says a new survey.
“For decades, the Canadian government and provincial governments have taken the general approach that the system isn’t working, so let’s throw more and more money at it,” Dominic Lucyk, communications director with think tank SecondStreet.org which published the study, told The Epoch Times.
“And you look at wait-list numbers, you look at the numbers of deaths on wait lists, those continue to go up year over year.”
The survey was accompanied by a policy brief released on Nov. 4, providing a look at public opinion assessing Canadians’ interest in health-care reform….