Australia’s Universal Health Care System Outperforms Canada’s on Key Measures: Fraser Institute

Australia’s universal health care system outperforms Canada’s on key measures, including wait times and cost, and includes a larger role for private hospitals, says a comprehensive Fraser Institute report. “The Australian system outranks Canada’s on a range of performance indicators, while spending less as a percentage of GDP,” states the Jan. 16 report, The Role of Private Hospitals in Australia’s Universal Health Care System. According to the report, Australia consistently outperforms Canada in terms of timely access to health care resources. The comparison, based on several key indicators of health care performance, indicates that Australia has better outcomes in terms of ease of access to after-hours care, same-day primary care appointments, and notably, timely access to elective surgical care and specialist appointments....