{"id":275865,"date":"2026-02-05T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:30:06","slug":"new-survey-suggests-canadians-feel-health-care-system-has-deteriorated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/275865\/","title":{"rendered":"New survey suggests Canadians feel health-care system has deteriorated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health-care deteriorated?<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Alberga, The Canadian Press &#8211; Feb 5, 2026 \/ 6:02 am | Story: 597901<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"An exam room is seen at a health clinic in Calgary, Friday, July 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/27096d01646281675822f04621a3a88f2bbb548596725faa19afb5cea3b331bf.jpg\" style=\"height:427px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>An exam room is seen at a health clinic in Calgary, Friday, July 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jeff McIntosh<\/p>\n<p>A new survey suggests Canadians feel the health-care system has deteriorated over the last decade as they increasingly struggle to access family doctors and encounter hurdles to seeing specialists.<\/p>\n<p>The Angus Reid Institute survey released Thursday compares the results of more than 4,000 respondents between Nov. 26 and Dec. 1, 2025 to a survey it conducted in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The latest results say half of respondents reported that they either don\u2019t have a family doctor or struggle to see the one they do have.<\/p>\n<p>That marks a 25 per cent increase in difficulty accessing a family doctor since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Research shows the number of family doctors is not keeping pace with demand as fewer physicians choose family medicine, many retire and the population grows older.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five per cent of survey participants also said it\u2019s difficult, very difficult or impossible to access an appointment with a specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy per cent of participants said the quality of the health-care system in their province has deteriorated in the past decade, despite the country\u2019s spending on health-care nearly doubling in the same time span.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health-care deteriorated? Hannah Alberga, The Canadian Press &#8211; Feb 5, 2026 \/ 6:02 am | Story: 597901 Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-275865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}