Fraser Institute News Release: Australia’s universal health-care system outperforms Canada on key measures including wait times, costs less and includes large role for private hospitals
It also delivers universal health-care differently by including a large role for private hospitals, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
- It also delivers universal health-care differently by including a large role for private hospitals, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
- Both are high-income western countries with universal health care, but unlike in Canada, private hospitals play a fundamental role in Australia’s universal health-care framework,” said Mackenzie Moir, policy analyst at the Fraser Institute and co-author of The Role of Private Hospitals in Australia’s Universal Health Care System.
- In fact, in 2016 (the latest year of comparable data), 48.5 per cent of Australia’s hospitals were private hospitals.
- In 2020, 54 percent of Australians waited less than 4 weeks for a specialist compared to only 38 percent in Canada.