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three-quarters of canadians say their province is doing a bad job managing health care
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the highest dissatisfaction rates are in manitoba, new brunswick and newfoundland. getty
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three quarters of canadians are dissatisfied with the way their province is handling healthcare, according to a new poll. approval ratings are currently at the lowest level in eight years.
the angus reid poll, released wednesday, found that 72 per cent of of people across the country are critical of the way their provincial government has handled the health-care system. federally, only 25 per cent think their province is doing a good job. even in the provinces with the highest ratings (saskatchewan and nova scotia), health-care approval hovers at 30 per cent. the highest dissatisfaction rates are in manitoba, new brunswick and newfoundland: in those three provinces, 83 per cent of people are unhappy with government health performance.
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dissatisfaction with health care was already fairly high before the pandemic: only 37 per cent thought their province was doing a good job on health, while 58 per cent disapproved. and for a brief time as covid-19 began to spread in march 2020, people approved of the measures their province took. but that didn’t last long, and dissatisfaction levels are now at record highs.
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more than half of canadians (52 per cent) say healthcare is a top issue in their province — it’s second only to cost-of-living and inflation.
there’s a gendered dimension to systemic dissatisfaction as well. across all age groups, at least three-quarters of women disapprove of the way their province has handled healthcare. age also plays a part, with older canadians more likely to consider provincial health care a crisis. and while men between the ages of 18 and 34 don’t consider health care to be a major issue in their province, 41 per cent of men aged 35 to 54 do, as well as 62 per cent of men aged 55 and over. meanwhile, 45 per cent of women aged 18 to 34 consider health care a major issue, as do 58 per cent of women between 35 to 54 and 68 per cent of women over 55.
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the poll was conducted online from june 7 to 13, 2022. participants were part of a “representative randomized sample” of 5,032 canadians.
maija kappler is a reporter and editor at healthing. you can reach her at mkappler@postmedia.com
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