If you think US Healthcare is anything other than an embarrassment, you're delusional

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by r00t [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter.

The median wait time in Canada to see a special physician is a little over four weeks with 89.5% waiting fewer than 90 days.[55]

Dr. Brian Day was once quoted as saying "This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which humans can wait two-to-three years."[58]

You can't use the most extreme example you can find (hip replacements) to characterize the whole system, idiot. You're right, you're a bullshitter, cherry picking numbers to prove your asinine points. Canadian wait times are published (here for example) and you can see for yourself urgent care specialists like cardiac surgeons are max 4 days.

My Dad went in Friday with chest pains and had a stent in on Monday. No co-payments, no invoices from the hospital, no swiping his charge card before he went in...

Some services have waiting lists, that's how you control costs. Thats also how you ensure that someone in agony from a broken hip (high acuity) gets a new one before some old bag (low acquity) with a creaky hip. Thus, a Health Care System that costs 1/2 of the American system.

Regards,
Mg (former health care data warehouse manager)