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  • WSJ: Back-Alley Hip Replacements (Canadia healthcare)

    10/20/2004 5:30:32 AM PDT · by OESY · 55 replies · 1,626+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | October 20, 2004 | Editorial
    Voters yearning for the federal government to start rationing American health care might want to take note of a study just released by our neighbors up north. The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute yesterday published its 14th annual report on hospital waiting times in Canada. In medical terms, the patient is not responding to increasing doses of dollars -- and the prognosis is not good. Under Canada's government-run health-care monopoly, Fraser reports that the average wait for hospital treatment is 17.9 weeks. That's the average over 12 specialties and 10 provinces. To take just one example, the projected wait for hip-replacement surgery...