No one gives a rip about Canada
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No one gives a rip about you.
True story.
True story.
Does Canada still exist? I haven't noticed. 
I haven't either.Does Canada still exist? I haven't noticed.
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2019 Report
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2019
Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care.
Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 20.9 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 19.8 weeks reported in 2018. This year’s wait time is just shy of the longest wait time recorded in this survey’s history (21.2 weeks in 2017) and is 124% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.
Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. This year, Canadians could expect to wait 4.8 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 9.3 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 3.4 weeks for an ultrasound.
Research has repeatedly indicated that wait times for medically necessary treatment are not benign inconveniences. Wait times can, and do, have serious consequences such as increased pain, suffering, and mental anguish. In certain instances, they can also result in poorer medical outcomes—transforming potentially reversible illnesses or injuries into chronic, irreversible conditions, or even permanent disabilities. In many instances, patients may also have to forgo their wages while they wait for treatment, resulting in an economic cost to the individuals themselves and the economy in general.
The results of this year’s survey indicate that despite provincial strategies to reduce wait times and high levels of health expenditure, it is clear that patients in Canada continue to wait too long to receive medically necessary treatment.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wait-times-for-health-care-in-canada-2019
Waiting for treatment has become a defining characteristic of Canadian health care.
Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 20.9 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—longer than the wait of 19.8 weeks reported in 2018. This year’s wait time is just shy of the longest wait time recorded in this survey’s history (21.2 weeks in 2017) and is 124% longer than in 1993, when it was just 9.3 weeks.
Patients also experience significant waiting times for various diagnostic technologies across the provinces. This year, Canadians could expect to wait 4.8 weeks for a computed tomography (CT) scan, 9.3 weeks for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, and 3.4 weeks for an ultrasound.
Research has repeatedly indicated that wait times for medically necessary treatment are not benign inconveniences. Wait times can, and do, have serious consequences such as increased pain, suffering, and mental anguish. In certain instances, they can also result in poorer medical outcomes—transforming potentially reversible illnesses or injuries into chronic, irreversible conditions, or even permanent disabilities. In many instances, patients may also have to forgo their wages while they wait for treatment, resulting in an economic cost to the individuals themselves and the economy in general.
The results of this year’s survey indicate that despite provincial strategies to reduce wait times and high levels of health expenditure, it is clear that patients in Canada continue to wait too long to receive medically necessary treatment.
You wouldn't recognize one in a lineup even if your life depended on it.
Isn't Canada just a hat the U.S. wears on our head to keep the Arctic cold out.
Your blind allegiance to Canada is just as bad as the blind nationalism that you claim to be against for citizens of the USA. Canada has a number of problems with its racism and crimes against First Nation Peoples.
You act like America is the only place with religious zealots and yet, you completely ignore the power of the Catholic Church and their influence in Canada.
Just admit that you enjoy making fun of Americans as form of escapism. What it is that you are trying to escape from is open for debate, the fact that you are running from something is not.
Problems exist in every country. It is just curious that they should take extreme forms in the world's superpower country; the premier First World Country.
Okay, fair enough. I can't argue with anything you said. However, do you have a single post challenging anything against Canada?