{
  "id": 1030243,
  "title": "Opinion: Status quo the greatest threat to Canadian health care",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/15/opinion-status-quo-the-greatest-threat-to-canadian-health-care",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-15T12:00:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Calgary Herald",
    "slug": "calgary-herald",
    "url": "https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-status-quo-the-greatest-threat-to-canadian-health-care"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "If there’s one thing we don’t need, it’s more of the same. In 2025, patients endured a median wait of 28.6 weeks from referral to treatment, and one in four said their health worsened because of delays accessing care. Behind those numbers are real people facing delayed diagnoses, postponed surgeries and prolonged suffering. Yet, too often, […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}