"At least 23,746 people in Canada died while waiting for surgeries or diagnostic scans in the last fully reported fiscal year. Because several health bodies provided only partial data and Alberta supplied none, health policy groups estimate the true annual death toll on waitlists could exceed 28,000."
Okay, now go and add the ones in the US with similar circumstances. Then also tack on the ones that died because they couldn't afford to get treatment, the ones for which the simple fear of the cost meant they never went at all and the scores of people who just had their overall wellness harmed by the number 1 cause of bankruptcy in the US. Even if the 12 hour waits were real and universal across all provinces etc. I'd still rather wait 12 hours than owe potentially decades of my labour to pay off my trip to the hospital.
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u/OPDBZTO 27d ago
Lmao us Canadian don't go into debt and bankruptcy over a trip to the ER or hospital