Among wealthy countries, Canada ranks among the top in health care spending per person; however, we rank close to the bottom on outcomes
Paramedics transfer patients to the emergency room triage but have no choice but to leave them in the hallway due to an at-capacity emergency room at the Humber River Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto on Jan. 25, 2022.Nigel Rawson is a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. John Adams is co-founder and CEO of Canadian PKU and Allied Disorders Inc., a senior fellow with the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and volunteer board chair of Best Medicines Coalition.
The inefficient use of funding is compounded by the lack of investment in health research and development. Canada is the only G7 country whose R&D expenditure as a proportion of gross domestic product shrank between 2000 and 2020, resulting in Canada being ranked 18th among OECD countries in 2020. The federal government appointed an advisory panel in 2016 to identify gaps in R&D support and make recommendations
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