Wow, so in Canada if a woman is pregnant and she has complications she can wait 5.2 weeks on average to receive an ultrasound. It looks like prenatal care is a right women in Canada do not have. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2024 Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2024 Report In 2024, physicians across Canada reported a median wait time of 30.0 weeks between a referral from a GP and receipt of treatment. Up from 27.7 in 2023. This is 222% longer than the 9.3 week wait Canadian patients could expect in 1993. Ontario reported the shortest total wait (23.6 weeks), followed by Quebec (28.9 weeks) and British Columbia (29.5 weeks). Patients waited longest in Prince Edward Island (77.4 weeks), New Brunswick (69.4 weeks) and Newfoundland and Labrador (43.2 weeks). Patients waited the longest for Orthopaedic Surgery (57.5 weeks) and Neurosurgery (46.2 weeks). By contrast, patients faced shorter waits for Radiation Oncology (4.5 weeks) and Medical Oncology (4.7 weeks). The national 30 week total wait is comprised of two segments. Referral by a GP to consultation with a specialist: 15.0 weeks. Consultation with a specialist to receipt of treatment: 15.0 weeks. More than 1900 responses were received across 12 specialties and 10 provinces. After seeing a specialist, Canadian patients waited 6.3 weeks longer than what physicians consider to be clinically reasonable (8.6 weeks). Across 10 provinces, the study estimated that patients in Canada were waiting for 1.5 million procedures in 2024. Patients also suffered considerable delays for diagnostic technology: 8.1 weeks for CT scans, 16.2 weeks for MRI scans, and 5.2 weeks for Ultrasound.
MAID reminds of the movie Soylent Green where Mr Wilson is tired of living and they give him a first class send off. What happens when a very patient people realize that they are being disposed of.
In reality, maternal death rates are significantly higher in the US than in Canada. We look after our pregnant woman better than you do. Factor in the costs involved it's no contest.
I went called the doctor, got the appointment same day. I got the MRI same day. In Canada you can expect 16.2 weeks for MRI scans. WAITING FOR TREATMENT IS NOT TREATMENT.
I'm delighted that you think you are getting your money's worth . A smarter man might ask why in the US the maternal death rate is almost double that of Canada, and why Canadians have longer life expectancies ( by almost 4 years now this gap is actually growing ). Obviously any issue with wait times is a far less important influence on the quality of health care than other factors. But it helps soothe your ego because you just don't seem to want to admit our system is better. And even better than ours in some other developed countries. Seriously complaining about Canadian health care is one of the dumbest topics on here. We don't want your crappy system.
But the Canadian government mandated Covid vaccines made in the USA. There is literally nothing state of the art coming out of Canada. You have individual Americans with more advanced space programs than the entire country of Canada. Factor in the fact that Canada has been ripping off the US for decades and its not a pretty picture. You are not a sovereign country.
I am going to shamelessly post an article, below, from a decade ago. Admittedly, one of my favorites, because I know how the Canadian psyche works and what hurts for them. There is a lot of entertainment value in this too. Even RearEnder cannot spin this. Laughing my sorry arse off. Canadian Politician Comes to U.S. for Heart Surgery — The top politician in Canada's easternmost province has set off fireworks by deciding to go to the U.S. for heart surgery. https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/open...-premier-seeks-health-care-in-U-S-3198150.php Nfld. Premier travels to U.S. for heart surgery https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...avels-to-us-for-heart-surgery/article4304186/ The 59-year-old Conservative left yesterday morning, spokesperson Elizabeth Matthews said, without disclosing his location. While some of his critics were tight-lipped last night, the online public questioned his exodus - why the care he needed was not available in Canada, or whether he preferred treatment in the U.S. His departure for a U.S. hospital is being met with both sympathy and anger as few details have emerged.