Stories abound of Canadians going to extreme measures in order to gain access to medical technology. For example, several years ago an enterprising hospital in Guelph, Ontario, decided to allow animals needing CT scans to enter the hospital in the middle of the night - charging pet owners C$300 apiece. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that except that thousands of people in Ontario were waiting up to three months for an appointment on the same machine.
"I'd go any time," said Greg Moulton, who was in the middle of a two-month wait to learn why he was having "excruciating" headaches. Because people are not allowed to pay out of pocket for medical procedures covered under the government-run plan, they have to wait. If you are a dog, you can get medical technology immediately.
When dogs get better treatment than people, then people will become dogs. In December 1999, The Washington Post reported that waiting lines for MRIs in Ontario had grown so long that one Ontario resident "booked himself into a private veterinary clinic that happened to have one of the machines, listing himself as 'Fido.'"
God help us all if the socialists finally succeed in their attempt to excise the free enterprise element within our medical industry.
Didn't happen. That story was later exposed as bs
The Lawson Research Center in London has the only MRI that has ever done animals. At $1000 a pop. And that's what they do. Animals. There are several private clinics that do humans. $700 bucks. Guelph Veterinary College is building it's own MRI facility for animals , $70+million worth.
I don't know who Brooks is and don't care. He claims to have endured 2 hours of nurse hell and had his eye problem diagnosed in 5 minutes . Then he spends a minimum of $1000 us plus traveling expenses, spends 4 hours of which 90 minutes is spent checking him out. And gets the same diagnosis . And a cup of tea.
Big deal.