The Fraser Institute has released a study on how long you have to wait for medically necessary care and that costs more than 1.1 billion dollars or just over 13 hundred dollars a patient. That figure rises to more than 3.5 billion if you include the hours outside the traditional work week.
According to the study, the cost of waiting for medically necessary care is higher in New Brunswick, increasing to an average of more than 2 thousand dollars a patient. That’s second highest in the country behind Newfoundland and Labrador.
An annual survey of doctors has calculated the average median wait time from time of the appointment with a specialist to actual treatment is 9.8 weeks, almost three weeks longer than what the doctors consider clinically reasonable.
