A person could expire while waiting to see a doctor in Canada.
The Vancouver-based Fraser Institute, which has long documented Canada's miserable government-run health care system, estimates the cost of waiting for care "For patients who were in the queue in 2022 was almost $3.6 billion an average of about $2,925 for each of the estimated 1,228,047 Canadians waiting for treatment." The real toll is actually worse than that.
Fraser's "Conservative estimate" does not place an "Intrinsic value on the time individuals spend waiting in a reduced capacity outside of the work week." When evenings and weekends are entered into the calculation, minus eight hours of sleep each night, the estimated cost of waiting reaches "$10.9 billion, or about $8,897 per person.
"At least 13,581 patients died while waiting for surgeries, procedures and diagnostic scans," the report says.
"This year's total is up from last year's total of 11,581." The delays were "Anywhere from less than a month to over eight years." In most instances, "The number of patients who died waiting for a diagnostic scan was significantly higher than the number of patients who died while waiting for surgery." This is what happens when the government gives the people it is supposed to protect only two health care choices: They can get by as best as they are able while languishing on a government waiting list for surgery or other medical services; or they can leave the country for care, an option that is not for everyone.
Canada's medical care arrangement, the model for the system the Democrats want to inflict on the U.S., is such a botch that lawmakers have plans to rework funding "To improve health care across the country." The better path would be privatization.
There's no real movement in that direction, even though 61% of the country "Believes increased privatization or hybrid models are a 'necessary evolution' for optimum care", or are "Curious but hesitant" about loosening the government's chokehold on care.
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