"five million Canadians do not have a family doctor as their first point of contact when they need to access medical care and of those people, almost two million reported they have tried to find a family doctor in the past year and failed. Even people who do have doctors are having trouble getting timely care"
read the article @refurb, information shows lack of primary medical care but why? cost, lack of GPs, remoteness and dispersion of patients? I know the US and Canada are both vast countries with unequal distribution of population. The root of inequity in Australia is cost, remoteness & dispersion of the population. Most live in the cities, in the bush you cop poor quality of access and service even though primary health care is mostly free (Medicare).
"...almost two million reported they have tried to find a family doctor in the past year and failed."
[1]http://www.nationalpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=5c461d67-d...