Table 1.
Summary of survey responses
| Question 1 | |||||
| Yes | No | ||||
| Do you currently perform procedures not reimbursed by your provincial health care reimbursement program and paid directly by the patient? | 56% | 44% | |||
| Question 2 | |||||
| < 5% | 5–10% | 10–20% | > 20% | Unsure | |
| If you responded “yes” to question #1, what proportion of your income would be derived from nongovernmental reimbursement? | 76.5% | 11.8% | 2.0% | 3.9% | 5.8% |
| Question 3 | |||||
| Among the following statements, which one is closest to your opinion regarding private health care? (pick only one) | Response | ||||
| Canadians should be able to purchase, by his/her own choice, private health care services in Canada. | 65.5% | ||||
| Access to private insurance/health services should only exist to cover medically necessary services that the public system fails to deliver in a timely manner. | 17.8% | ||||
| Private health care should not be allowed to pay for medical services regardless of wait times, availabilities, etc. aside from medically “unnecessary” services such as cosmetic surgery and vasectomy reversal. | 16.7% | ||||
| Question 4 | |||||
| Do you think a parallel private health care system will | Yes | No | |||
| Shorten wait times and improve access to health care? | 74% | 26% | |||
| Improve outcomes for those with private health care? | 58.8% | 41.2% | |||
| Impair the outcomes of those without private health care? | 25.8% | 74.2% | |||
| Interfere with the accessibility of health care for most Canadians? | 26.7% | 73.3% | |||
| Reduce the quality of physician care in the public system? | 26.7% | 73.3% | |||
| Be detrimental to Canadian health care? | 27.7% | 72.3% | |||
| Question 5 | |||||
| Yes | No | ||||
| Do you think Canada will eventually move toward some degree of a private parallel system? | 86.7% | 13.3% | |||
| Question 6 | |||||
| In the event of the establishment of a parallel system, how do you feel urologists should participate in this system? | Response | ||||
| Spend as much time delivering private care as he/she can | 8.9% | ||||
| Spend a fixed amount of time providing public health care services | 91.1% | ||||
| Question 7 | |||||
| If you chose answer (ii) in question 6, what proportion of your time would you see as devoted to the public system? | Response | ||||
| 20% (or 1 d per wk) | 4.7% | ||||
| 40% (or 2 d per wk) | 11.7% | ||||
| 60% (or 3 d per wk) | 42.4% | ||||
| 80% (or 4 d per wk) | 28.2% | ||||
| Question 8 | |||||
| Yes | No | ||||
| Do you think that the Canadian Urological Association (CUA) should develop a summary statement representing the views of Canadian urologists regarding this topic? | 64.8% | 35.2% | |||
| Question 9 | |||||
| Do you think the CUA should promote | Yes | No | |||
| Establishment of private health insurance/health care? | 57.8% | 42.2% | |||
| Improve outcomes for those with private health care? | 4.5% | 95.5% | |||
| Impair the outcomes of those without private health care? | 75.3% | 24.7% | |||