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To: Lane3 who wrote (52193)	3/6/2008 9:20:27 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543056

>>I was thinking MRI's. Canada doesn't have a lot of them and only a couple are private. That current flap in Saskachewan made reference to not jumping queues.<< Karen - Again, using my Canadian girlfriend as a source, my understanding is that there are lots of cases where the Canadian government pays to send a citizen down here to get an MRI. Because MRI machines are extraordinarily expensive, and because they are plentiful here, it's actually cheaper for them to handle urgent cases this way. In cases where the need is less urgent, people have to wait. As for people not being able to pay extra to jump the queue for a publicly owned MRI, I think that only makes sense. By the way, I would not suggest that the Canadian system is perfect. No system is. I do think their system makes more sense than ours, overall, and by a wide margin. - Allen