As mentioned in last week's Speech from the Throne and Tuesday's 2013 provincial budget, B.C.'s population is aging. It's projected the seniors population in B.C. will double over the next 25 years -- meaning more than 30 per cent of our population will be over the age of 65 by 2036.

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Governments keep telling Canadians how they are going to "fix" the health-care system. Yet many problems are actually getting worse, including longer wait-lists for diagnosis and surgery, over-crowded emergency rooms, and increasing shortages of family doctors.

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On Monday, the Health Council of Canada (HCC) released a new report which rates Canada's health-care system by comparing it to nine other developed countries. The HCC sent out surveys to physicians throughout Canada and the nine other countries and asked primary care physicians to rate the system.

Canada doesn't do very well in this survey and we're shown to be below the average of these selected developed countries, in some cases by a far margin.

The differences between provinces include: