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Originally posted by CookieRevised
If people need to wait a couple of days for non-critical things to be done, it is because more important critical things of other people come first. And waiting for years for something non-critical has got nothing todo with all this. If they needed to wait for years it is because something was not available at that time (donor, medical knowhow, whatever) or wasn't opssible todo on their age, etc. There are perfect reason for something like that. Even if those people lived in the US and had the best medial plan available they still would have been waiting "for years".
Actually, in at least one of the specific cases I mention, the wait was not for anything of the sort you suggest. It was for availability of the operating theater at a Vancouver hospital -- apparently a scarce resource. That clearly is a problem of insufficient capital investment and poor management on part of the government in charge of socialized medicine
That would not happen in the US, simply because operating such a facility here makes one very good money. Consequently, there are more facilities than required available at any given time.
