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Ivany2008 posted...

Not to agree with the OP but its not even close to the same. I waited 16 hours with a broken foot only to not be seen here in Canada, all because our health care system can't afford to pay for a second doctor for overnights. Meanwhile my cousin can walk into any doctors office in the States with his insurance plan, and not only get seen, but get set up for an X-Ray that same day, when I could be waiting over a month. If I didn't have my own family care doctor, I'd be screwed. And by the by, family care doctors are extremely rare where I live. I was lucky when my family care doctor retired that all his patients got moved to the replacing doctor.

I've known people to be put on a waiting list for over a year for an extremely important surgery, only for it to be cancelled without their consent because the surgeon decided to take a holiday, and that's the only surgeon in the province that can perform that one surgery.

I'm not saying the States doesn't have issues, you guys most certainly do. You pay way too much for basic quality of life medicare, but at the same time, all our nurses, doctors and surgeons are moving there because the pay is vastly more than here.

My cousin got pushed down stairs by his wife and had a possible fracture in his skull and had to wait 3 days to get an X-Ray while he was waiting in the ER. I also needed an X-Ray for a potential surgery and had to wait 2 months to get it. So no, you can't get an X-Ray the same day everywhere in the US. I live in NYC btw. My mom has to wait an entire year to get cataract surgery.

All of that stuff you said happens here too. You just don't hear about it as often because it seems like the media wants to frame the US as this amazing bastion of healthcare while Canada and other places are hellholes.