In
2007, waiting lists for access to health
care in Canada reached a new all-time
high of 18.3 weeks from general practitioner
referral to treatment by a specialist.
Despite substantial increases in both
health spending and federal cash transfers
to the provinces for health care over
the last decade or so, this wait time is
54% longer than the overall median wait
time of 11.9 weeks back in 1997. . . .

in Britain:

Changes in the way dentists are paid mean they effectively have no financial incentive to give appropriate treatment, the Commons Health Select Committee said. . . As a result, the volume of more complex work like crowns, bridges and dentures has fallen by 57%.

and Canada. . . .