Waiting time for elective surgery is growing across the country, and becoming a hot political issue.

For many years the focus of health politics has been the elective surgery in the fit and relatively young.

Those are but a few reasons to try to minimize elective surgery.

You avoid the pain and risks of elective surgery for your baby.

The bonus: less elective surgery, more primary care for all.

This is, after all, elective surgery on fairly healthy eyes.

More than 660,000 people are on waiting lists for elective surgery nationwide.

According to the report, he waited a few days before going in to have "elective surgery" performed.

So in the end, it seems that the tax on elective surgery had mostly symbolic value.

An extra $10 million will be spent to reduce elective surgery waiting lists over four years.