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Your anecdotes are irrelevant. The long wait times are documented. Six months to get treated if government decides you're not a priority.
Americans with PPO coverage don't even need a referral. So you have to wait to see a doc, wait to see the specialist, then wait for treatment. By the time you've gotten your treatment said Americans have recovered.![]()
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Bullshit as usual.
That is not even a statistic as it doesn't even state a category of illness.
I am 79, with 3 heart conditions. I have NEVER lacked for care. No, we don't have billions of $ worth of machinery sitting idle waiting for a patient, but having made two ambulance trips to hospital I am pretty satisfied with the level of care that I have.
What you have heard is mostly highly sophisticated propaganda from the US and Euro based medical companies who hate socialized medicine as it cuts their margins by five points!
In fact, BECAUSE we don't have so many toys, Canada leads the world in non-invasive therapies in hundreds of areas especially old age.
The US cuts. We have learned cutting shaves years off a person's life.
Two different cultures with entirely different aims and you judge US based on your failing system. In America you can only get sick if your rich. Here, everyone gets the same care.