2026-04-27 from here

Canadians who wait for medically necessary treatment do not just risk their health; they also pay an enormous price in terms of lost time. In 2025, the cost of the time lost by individual Canadians while waiting for health care was more than $4.2 billion—or about $3,043 for each of the estimated 1.4 million patients waiting for treatment.

And this figure is conservative. It only counts lost hours during the typical work week. If we instead included all waking hours—including evenings and weekends—the cost of the time Canadians lose while waiting for health-care balloons to $12.9 billion, or about $9,336 per person waiting.

But even this larger estimate doesn't entirely capture how much personal time is lost to delays in our government-run health-care system.

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