| 75% of family physicians
are unable to take new patients. |
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| About 30% of Canadians are
currently having difficulty accessing a family doctor. |
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| About 1.5 million Canadians — 6.6%
of the population — report they needed, but did not receive, some
form of health care in the past year. |
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| Even an increase of 20%
in enrolments would not be sufficient to maintain our current
physician/patient ratios. In addition, increasing enrolments
from the
year 2000 will only increase physician supply beginning in the year 2006, and
be in full effect by the year 2011. |
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| Canada is losing 19 physicians to
the U.S.A. for every one physician that immigrates to Canada. In addition,
Canada is losing 15 nurses to the United States for every one that
moves North. |
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