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Originally Posted by Azure

Outside of private diagnostic clinics, which IMO are a big plus, the whole idea of the universal system is that you get in line, and depending on how serious your problem is, you wait in line.

Obviously if you need triple bypass surgery, you won't wait in the line that long. Provided of course that there aren't x amount of doctors that can preform that surgery, and the number of patients who need triple bypass surgery are overwhelming, therefore you might get pushed down the line. And anyone who needs triple bypass surgery would be considered a serious patient.

What I'm seeing is an organization like the Flames being able to flaunt their money to hire doctors and specialists who can often preform certain procedures in the middle of a game. Having a x-ray done in the middle of a game after a player takes a shot off the foot is pretty common these days, and yet most other people would have to wait hours for an x-ray on a problem like that, and in my area, 2 more weeks for the results. Is that fair? Absolutely not. But what am I supposed to do about it? Sure, I might be able to afford private diagnostic care, but the next person might not, and therefore he has to wait.

Problem I see is that certain people prefer to bury their head in the sand when it comes to talk about privatizing even more of our health care system, for better or worse, without even realizing that we already have a two-tier system.

If you have your own x-ray machine why would it be unfair of you to use it? This reads like an appeal to some sort of socialist fantasy land where everyone has equal means and equal access. That never has, and never will, exist.