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Originally Posted by missdpuck
So you have no choice but to be on the waiting list under your system? I guess that's what puzzles me. That sounds like our VA clinics. A veteran neds a test to save his eyesight, but the six months he has to wait for the test means he'll likely go blind.
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For a public care, yes you'll have to wait. However, we do have private clinics and facilities, but that would be out of your own pocket (unless you have special insurance, ie hockey players)
If you are waiting for something critical/life threatening, every province has a special health body that your doctor could submit a claim to, and they'll approve treatment/surgery outside of province or country if it's deemed you cannot wait any longer. This was the case when we get maternity patients from BC and Sask, or when we flown people to Montana to have their kids delievered. In this case, it would be covered