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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (2975)	11/26/2007 1:23:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Yes Americans have to wait as well. But we don't get wait times like this - bp2.blogger.com mjperry.blogspot.com The shortage of urologists in eastern Canada is so severe that patients are waiting about a year for surgery. Laments Andy Grant, a member of a St. John's prostate cancer support group: First of all, [patients deal with] the shock you might have prostate cancer, then the shock of being confirmed with prostate cancer. Now you have the shock of saying, "I have to wait until next year?" moonbattery.com Message 23860173 Also see abducens.townhall.com and "...As if a taboo had lifted, government statistics on the health-care system's problems are suddenly available. In fact, government researchers have provided the best data on the doctor shortage, noting, for example, that more than 1.5 million Ontarians (or 12 percent of that province's population) can't find family physicians. Health officials in one Nova Scotia community actually resorted to a lottery to determine who'd get a doctor's appointment... ...George Zeliotis, an elderly Montrealer forced to wait almost a year for a hip replacement... city-journal.org Message 23760620 "...Consider the recent British controversy over a cancer patient who tried to get an appointment with a specialist, only to have it canceled—48 times. More than 1 million Britons must wait for some type of care, with 200,000 in line for longer than six months. A while back, I toured a public hospital in Washington, D.C., with Tim Evans, a senior fellow at the Centre for the New Europe. The hospital was dark and dingy, but Evans observed that it was cleaner than anything in his native England. In France, the supply of doctors is so limited that during an August 2003 heat wave—when many doctors were on vacation and hospitals were stretched beyond capacity..." coyoteblog.com Message 23760589