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Originally Posted by pornask
Some complain that waiting times for some surgeries in Canada are long. The solution is simple - if you don't wish to wait, go to the US and pay their fee. Only US fees are so high, vast majority of people will wait till their time to get free surgery comes.
If you don't like it, there's always ither options, but people are like that - they will bitch just for the sake of bitching. Either way, most of canadian will only have good things to say about Canadian health care system.
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Not sure if it's the same in Canada, but in the EU you can elect to pay if you wish and have "private medical care". It's basically the same docs, operating theaters etc - just more of a hotel environment.
Doubt in reality there is much difference in "waiting times" over universal healthcare countries or the US - if a healthcare problem is not time-senstive - it will be scheduled as appropriate - otherwise treated as urgent.