Hey #Canadians I'm trying to figure out what healthcare is like there. Everywhere has problems but they're all a bit different. Here in the USA people don't want to go to the hospital and rack up a bill that will leave them homeless so they stay home and die of something preventable. One person on Reddit said in #Canada people die of cancer while waiting for the results of their biopsy - they can afford the care but it takes so long because everything is so backlogged they die anyway. How true is this? Wait times for specialists take a couple months where I am in the US and the ER wait times probably 4-12 hrs.
Depending on the specialty and where you are, you may wait months just for that phone call, and then a year or significantly longer to see the specialist. And then if they decide you need treatment, you may wait another year or more for that.
I was on a waiting list to see a particular specialist ... for 7 years. I ended up moving to a different city, under a different health administration, before I got to the top of the list.