Ever wonder what waiting times in Canada are like when you need to get health care? The Fraser Institute has released its 20th annual Wait Times For Health Care In Canada report that helps define how long you're going to wait for health care in Canada.
Americans in search of government run single payer health care like to look to Canada as the gold standard for what Americans should strive to get. Well, here's how things are rationed in Canada. You're going to wait. And you're going to wait a very long time to get your health care.
In America, I don't think 85% of the population is willing to wait nine months of pain and suffering to get their elective orthopaedic surgery, just so the other 15% of the population can get theirs too. We are a selfish nation that demands everything yesterday. Although, I would suspect the vast majority of these elective surgeries do get done in the United States.
You see, in addition to charity donations by doctors and nurses for patients, you can find these same doctors and nurses providing free care at volunteer clinics all over this country of ours. And they do it without making others wait nine months to get their knee fixed.
That's how we do things in America.
