Some 75,000 people have died over the past few years because they were on waitlists for surgeries or diagnoses, according to a new report.

🇨🇦75,000+ CANADIANS DIED WAITING FOR HEALTH CARE

New data reveals over 15,000 Canadians died in 2023-24 while stuck on waitlists for surgeries or diagnostic scans.

Since 2018, that number has surpassed 75,000.

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The report at ZeroHedge said the death count for just 2023-24 was 15,000 Canadians, as patients there “waited years for treatment they never received” or those who “turned to euthanasia due to lack of timely care.”

“For a country that pays high taxes for ‘free’ health care, many are left asking – at what cost?” the report said.

Canada is one of the nations with a socialized medical program, where treatment is supposed to be free, but in reality it’s turned out the treatment often is rare, or even unobtainable, as the record shows physicians have offered their patients euthanasia instead of treatment.

The report cited data from SecondStreet.org, which said the death doll for 2023-24 was 15,474 Canadians who died “before receiving various surgeries or diagnostic scans.”

However, the reported some local governments in Canada don’t report numbers, so the total isn’t accurate.

“SecondStreet.org collected the data by filing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests across Canada. When the data collected is extrapolated across jurisdictions which did not provide data, the number actually nearly doubles, to around 28,077. These figures cover everything from cancer treatment and heart operations to cataract surgery and MRI scans,” the report explained.

Harrison Fleming, an official with SecondStreet, said, “Canadians pay really high taxes and yet our health care system is failing when compared to better-performing universal systems in Europe. Thousands of Canadians across the country find themselves on waitlists — in some cases for several years -— with too many tragically dying before ever getting treated, or even diagnosed.”

The known total of 15,474 does not include those cases from Quebec, Alberta, Newfoundland, Labrador and most of Manitoba. Two other provinces, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia, release information on deaths among those awaiting surgeries only not those awaiting diagnostic scans.

Wait times were found to be up to 14 years.

And the report said since April 2018, the organization identified a staggering 74,677 cases where Canadians died while awaiting care.

Further, the reported noted about 15,000 people were euthanized in Canada in 2023, including an unknown number because they were unable to obtain care.