Long waits and service shortages are not accidents. They are the predictable result of a single-payer system that limits access

Canada’s health-care problems are built into the system, which means longer wait times are not a temporary failure.

Spending more money will not fix access, so higher taxes do not buy faster care.

Single-payer control leads to rationing, limiting when and how you can get treatment.

The Canada Health Act blocks meaningful change.

For patients, this means the same delays and shortages will continue unless the system itself changes.

Long wait lists, emergency room closures, and a growing shortage of doctors are now routine across Canada. Opposition parties, including in my own province, use health care as a political weapon, blaming staffing shortages on underfunding. Meanwhile, premiers and provincial health ministers blame Ottawa to excuse the rationing of services.

They’re wrong. The problem is structural. Canada’s single-payer health-care system suppresses market forces and treats rationing as policy. No amount of money will fix that.

For hospital and physician care, Canada operates under a single-payer model in which the provincial government is the sole payer. Control over funding means control over incentives. As a result, health care is shaped primarily by political considerations, with patient access and outcomes taking a back seat.

That control is reinforced by federal health transfers. As a........

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