A new survey suggests seven out of 10 Canadians worry they won't be able to get good quality medical care if they or a family member need it.
The poll by Leger comes nearly a year after the federal government signed a new health accord with the provinces to address the severe shortage of health-care workers.
Of the 15-hundred thirty-six Canadians surveyed last weekend, 37 per cent rated the health-care system in their province as poor or very poor, while 26 per cent rated it as good.
People in Alberta and B.C. were more likely to say their health-care systems were good, while people in Atlantic Canada and Quebec were more likely to rate them as poor.
Only 17 per cent of people surveyed said they felt the state of health care is likely to improve in the next two years.
Online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they are not considered truly random samples.