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Originally Posted by mykalberta

In the US, you go to a clinic which is much closer to where you are, pay $135US and a doctor gives to a cortizone and morphine shot and you are out of the doctors office within 45 minutes total. 35 of those minutes are you grilling the doctor of the safety of the cortizone and morphine shot because your doctor in Canada never once suggested that after 10+ times of going to one yet in the US where you are on vacation that is the first thing he suggests.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=112416514

Another survey, by the nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change, found that wait times were among the top reasons people with insurance delay medical care or go without it altogether. The center's president, Paul Ginsburg, says long waits are no longer the fault of HMOs skimping on the number of doctors they allow because in most cases they have expanded their networks.

"Today, when you hear about wait times or inability to get into a practice, people tend to not blame the network but to say this is a systemwide problem and needs a systemwide solution," he says.