Nearly six in 10 Canadians support reform of the country’s public health-care system, including use of private clinics when patients face delays in receiving timely care, a new survey suggests.
Think tank SecondStreet.org, in partnership with Leger, polled more than 1,600 adults nationwide on five health-care reform options, based on the experiences of other “better-performing” universal health-care systems around the world, including those in Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Australia, Germany, and Japan, said the report detailing the findings.
“Overall, these numbers are similar to past public opinion research, namely by showing that the public generally supports moving forward with reform that allows for more choice in terms of options available to patients and the structure of the system itself,” said authors SecondStreet.org president Colin Craig and research director Bacchus Barua….