In a free health care plan, do you really have to wait long to be treated?

Question

As in for non-emergency operations. Is there a long wait to be served?

I've heard from Canadians that relatives or even themselves have waited over half a year for knee surgery or leg surgery....Other times, I have heard that they don't have to wait that long at all. Maybe just a few weeks.

What is it really like.

I would love to hear it straight from the source.

Answer 1

longer than 10k run

Answer 2

I would depend on how urgent it was.

Answer 3

My mother was on a form of free medical here in the United States - it was called medicaid and she died because Jeb Bush felt that as long as someone could swallow they didn't need nutritional supplemental feedings [he was trying to cut costs] - my mother could swallow she just couldn't keep her food down - she was literally starved to death and as a result her body could no longer fight against the MRSA and she died - it was a horrible nightmare -

You don't want the government which supports abortion by they way to govern over the kind of medical you get do you?  

Answer 4

I've worked in the medical field (surgery) for a few years and have seen many Canadians (who can afford it) coming to the US for surgery because the wait time in their country is unacceptable.  Imagine having a biopsy performed and finding out you have cancer and then having to wait nearly a year to have the tumor removed.  In the US, a cancer diagnosis gets you in the operating room and that tumor out of your body usually within 2-3 days.  What do you think the prognosis is for someone to have an invasive tumor left in them because "Sorry, first come, first served".  I'd rather pay through the nose for my healthcare than be stuck in some d**n line with a tumor in me because someone showed up before me with an ingrown toenail.