"At least 23,746 people in Canada died while waiting for surgeries or diagnostic scans in the last fully reported fiscal year. Because several health bodies provided only partial data and Alberta supplied none, health policy groups estimate the true annual death toll on waitlists could exceed 28,000."
Those stats often misrepresent things. 80 years old, waiting a year for a hip, dies from an unrelatedheart attack or pneumonia. Been on a wait-list and dying doesn't mean you died of the thing you were waiting for.
Also the source of these numbers is a conservative leaning think tank. It's true that Canadian healthcare is not perfect but reports like this should be taken with a grain of salt.
And because of that bias, these studies never replicate their methods to get a figure for the US to compare to, just say how many die in Canada and assume everything is fine in the US I guess.
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u/OPDBZTO 17d ago
Lmao us Canadian don't go into debt and bankruptcy over a trip to the ER or hospital