Canada’s health-care system does not perform on par with other countries that have universal health care, according to a new report.
The report, titled Comparing Performance of Universal Health Care Countries, 2024, from the Fraser Institute compares 31 high-income countries that have universal health care systems.
It looks at 40 indicators in four categories, including availability of resources, use of resources, access to resources, and quality and clinical performance.
Using 2022 data, the report found that Canada ranked 28 out of 30 when it comes to the availability of doctors, and ranked 25 out of 30 for the number of hospital beds and psychiatric beds open.
The country ranked low for the availability of technology, according to the report, with a 27 out of 31 rank for the number of MRI machines available per one million people and 28 out of 31 for the number of CT scanners available….