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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op where are you thinking of going?[/quote]

Singapore, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Germany, UK.....hell, it don't matter if you even have insurance. You can afford to pay out of pocket abroad because it is nowhere near as stupidly expensive as the US.[/quote]

Have you looked at Canada's wait times?  Plus, contrary to popular belief everything is not covered.  Yes, you can go to the doctor or hospital and not get a horrendous bill.  But you wait to get in, and a lot of peripheral care is not covered unless you have decent private insurance.  There's a reason Canadians are willing to go to the U.S. for some things.  I know a 20 year old woman who is having multiple seizures per week.  She has an 8 - 10 week wait for an MRI.  Your sleep study would not be covered, and you would wait.[/quote]

People love to say this.  Do you know people experiencing these so-called long wait times other than your Boomer friends who will complain about anything?

Fact: People over 55 love to complain about how everything is wrong with the world today.  My parents love to complain about their health care in Canada. Like how they had to wait 8 months for each of my (obese) father's knee replacements.  But the truth was that he lives in Florida for half the year, and still travels for work, so that was literally the only time it worked for his travel schedule. But they are boomers so they complained to everyone who would listen about how long the wait was. Had he just taken the first available appointment, it would have been no more than 3 months wait.

Fast forward a few years and dad finally takes his shortness of breath seriously and gets the doctor to do all the heart tests.  Three weeks to an angiogram, and then 3.5 weeks from then until quadruple bypass surgery.  He was in the moderate risk pool; had he been higher risk he would have been in surgery within the week.

In short, in my experience the only people complaining about wait times in Canada are old people who complain about anything; just like the maga old people in the US who want government to get out of their medicare.  [/quote]

Yes, friend's 18 yo son needed an MRI for his knee from an acute injury. Wait time was over 8 weeks.[/quote]

I waited over 6 weeks for my federal job health insurance to approve my MRI.[/quote]

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