Charlatan

Thanks Uber... they aren't illegal. Get your head around the concept.

Are wait times getting worse? At this moment, reports say they are. One of the problems with wait times though is that there is no agreed upon way of keeping track of this data.

Different provinces track it differently.

That said, it seems to be a hot item with politicians of late so I would say that either a) the wait times are bad or b) the wait times are slow but people want them to be faster and policians smell a way to get votes

It's probably a bit of both. Again, from what I have read, the wait times are typically around elective surgeries (i.e. not life threatening).

One of the ways that has been suggested to solve the issue is to allow private clinics to open and dip into the public stream. There are examples where this has been done and works well.

Our system has it's flaws (what system doesn't?). It's just a matter of looking at what you are trying to accomplish and how you are going to acheive it. We want to offer Universal Healthcare.

You have pointed to some stats that show a number of people have died because of wait times. It's not the greatest news. I can reverse this, how many people die every year in the US because they cant' afford a proceedure? How many people let an illness slide because they can't afford to get it treated at the treatable stage?

I don't have those stats but I would like to see them.

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