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I guess this person can not be bothered to hear about stories of people leaving this country (doctors and nurses for jobs) and patients (seeking more timely care) to the United States. Also, clerical and janitorial staff in hospitals being paid more than their private sector counterparts, making hospitals big union shops controlled by groups like CUPE (Canadian Public Employees Union) and OPSEU (Ontario Public Sector Employees Union). What about also people dying while waiting for treatments that they probably would have gotten faster had the hospitals not been these union shops? Saying stuff like this at my parents’ home would be a surefire way to get the china flying there.

There is also a limited number of specialty surgeons so most surgeries are handled by general surgeons.

Here's a website detailing the waiting times for various procedures in Ontario.

Ontario wait times

I focused specifically on MRI's, which in the Windsor area the average waiting time is 106 days. And I suspect it's much longer for a typical weekend athlete such as myself who might tear a muscle in my shoulder.

Here across the river in the suburbs of Detroit, I can get an MRI for whatever reason within a week from at least three different facilities within 10 miles of my home..........

I can have arthroscopic surgery on my knee within two weeks at any number of hospitals within 15 miles of my home........

I can schedule a series of physical therapy sessions on my shoulder beginning within a week at at least a half dozen certified facilities within 10 miles of my house with only a prescription from my doctor.......

There is so much wrong with this article that I don't know where to begin.

The larger body of doctors and hospital administrators who made our Western ethical and health system far superior are retiring. Many left with Obamacare.

So people came from Europe and Canada to get the best care in the world but that is a memory now. The current reality and future will be a lot less ethical and a lot more foreign.