Frederik Cyrus Roeder: Reduce wait times by allowing patients to seek care of out of country

The European Union has set an example for how to reduce health-care waitlists. Canada should follow suit

It’s no secret that if you need elective surgery in Canada, you’d better be prepared to wait for a very long time.

Is the problem a shortage of doctors and nurses? Underfunding? Administrative inefficiency? Pretty much everything has been blamed at one point or another. Despite decades of attempts at reform, long wait times continue to be a problem across Canada.