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Posted on 03/13/2026 2:18:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Six days in an overflow stretcher. Beds in storage rooms. Patients dying in their seats.
No, we're not describing an episode of HBO's gritty medical drama The Pitt. These are real-life scenes playing out in Canada's emergency rooms.
From Carbonear, N.L., where a man recently died of a heart attack during a 10-hour wait to see a doctor, to Calgary, where a woman pleaded "please don't let me die" during the hours she bled onto a stretcher in the ER, hospitals are bursting at the seams as backlogs and access issues affect patient flow.
"I think we're close to the breaking point," Dr. Margot Burnell, the president of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), told CBC News.
The issue for emergency departments is that they can't control who comes through their doors, said Burnell, a medical oncologist in Saint John, N.B. ERs are not only seeing increased numbers, but the patients that come through are also more medically complex.
This means longer wait-times both to see a doctor and to get a bed when a patient is admitted, Burnell explained. "Patient care, unfortunately, is being affected."
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And the US is just a half step behind.
Typical state-run healthcare.
Its just so predictable
So letting politicians run medical care is not great. It’s not much better in America letting profit motivated corporations run medical care with interference from politicians.
Perhaps there’s a another way.
immigration alone has increased the canadian population by 12%, so that’s a MAJOR factor in the failing socialized medical system, esp. since gigantic amounts of taxpayer money have had to be diverted to house, feed, cloth and pay for everything else for that 12%
Last week my husband waited 15 hours in the ER before being assigned a room at a Johns Hopkins affiliated Hospital.
How long before he was scene by a doctor ?
That 12 percent needs to be sent back to Modi.
> a man recently died of a heart attack during a 10-hour wait to see a doctor,
He died waiting for free so it’s ok.
Canada’s hospital emergency rooms long wait or over there assisted suicides no waiting
Yes unless we get rid of all illegals
Of course it is; and that's just the way the Rats, starting with LBJ, want it.
Costs are about 1/8 to 1/10 ours and outcomes just as good or better except for exotic cancer treatments.
But when the insurance and reimbursement rates are renegotiated, they all complain about costs just like we do. But they get a lot more for their money.
Well at least they all had “coverage” - that’s the important thing...
Isn’t socialized medicine great!
Yeah, someone I know well has friends in Germany who are of means and they fly here to get treatment - on a prior visit they were shocked when they came for a visit and he became ill and he was able to just call his own doctor and get an appointment. “What? You can just call and get your own appointment with your own doctor?”
So, no thank you to that system.
Also a web search appears to validate their experience is not just anecdotal: https://duckduckgo.com/?ia=web&origin=funnel_home_website&t=h_&q=germany+healthcare+wait+times&chip-select=search
“In recent years approximately 10 to 12% of emergency visits were by undocumented immigrants, Escaboza said, a drop from several years ago, when the numbers were closer to 25 percent. He cited increased border enforcement in 2025 as the most likely cause.”—Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2026. (about US).
Radio interview with a doctor I heard said all those illegals are using the “free” service, the hospitals getting paid later by the taxpayers, and the American citizens waiting long hours for help.
“Costs are about 1/8 to 1/10 ours and outcomes just as good or better except for exotic cancer treatments.”
Our costs should be more in that range.
I could make an appointment and fly tomorrow. I've called and made appointments to go see doctors in both Germany and Poland, but at private clinics. I have heard stories like that about the public ones.
I had to go to an ER once in Warsaw: brand new, got checked out immediately, full blood work, IV fluids. Paid about USD$300. Even if you did a per capita income adjustment rate, it would be about USD$900. Meanwhile my wife sliced her finger badly cutting bread one night here: waited a couple of hours, filthy ER, and the copay alone was about $300.
Americans are simply robbed blind by the healthcare system every day.
They have a solution MAID up already to take the pressure off.
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