XPost: or.politics, seattle.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 12:17:27 -0700, lomonosov wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 3 Dec 2025 10:59:38 -0800   
   > a425couple  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Ryan Williams Bay of Quinte   
   >> onSseopdtr4c   
   >>   ·   
   >> 🇨🇦 Canada’s Wait-Time Crisis Compared to the World   
   >> here are the wait times:   
   >>   
   >> 🇨🇦 Canada   
   >> • MRI: 80–90 days average   
   >> • CT: 60–70 days   
   >> • Surgery: 30 weeks median wait   
   >> • Deaths while waiting: 23,746   
   >> 🇵🇱 Poland   
   >> • MRI: 7–14 days (private pathway)   
   >> • CT: Same week with private option   
   >> • Surgeries: Weeks, not months   
   >> • Deaths while waiting: tiny fraction of Canada   
   >> 🇺🇸 United States   
   >> • MRI: 24–48 hours (insured)   
   >> • CT: Same day   
   >> • Surgeries: Days or weeks   
   >> • Deaths while waiting: not tracked… because wait-lists are rare   
   >> 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (NHS)   
   >> • MRI: 25–35 days   
   >> • CT: 1–3 weeks   
   >> • Surgeries: long waits, but far fewer die waiting   
   >> • Deaths while waiting: ≈310   
   >> Now the real problem…   
   >> ⸻   
   >> 🇨🇦 23,746 Canadians died waiting for surgery or scans last year   
   >> This is not normal.   
   >> This is not happening anywhere else in the developed world.   
   >> And it’s getting worse.   
   >> ⸻   
   >> 🇨🇦 Canada   
   >> 23,746 deaths while on wait-lists (2024–25).   
   >> Months for MRIs. Months for CTs. Months for surgery.   
   >> The longest waits in the developed world… and the highest death toll   
   >> from delays.   
   >> ⸻   
   >> 🇵🇱 Poland   
   >> Public system with a legal private option…   
   >> • MRI in 7–14 days   
   >> • Surgeries in weeks, not half-a-year   
   >> No national crisis of patients dying waiting for care.   
   >> Poland proves that choice shortens waits.   
   >> ⸻   
   >> 🇺🇸 United States   
   >> The US issues are about cost — not speed.   
   >> Urgent care is immediate. Elective surgery is fast.   
   >> They don’t track “died waiting for surgery” because wait-lists almost   
   >> never exist.   
   >> ⸻   
   >> 🇬🇧 United Kingdom (NHS)   
   >> Even a struggling NHS reports ≈310 deaths linked to delayed major   
   >> surgery. Canada: 23,746.   
   >> The gap is staggering.   
   >> ⸻   
   >> 📌 The truth   
   >> Canada now has:   
   >> • the slowest system,   
   >> • the longest waits, and   
   >> • the highest number of deaths from delayed care in the developed   
   >> world.   
   >   
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   >   
   > FYI   
      
   Both China and Russia have better health care and education today   
   than anything America has had.  Rich Chinese don't have to swim   
   in a sea of illiterate, sickly, commons to enjoy Civilization.   
      
   Human Progress is an ongoing process.   
      
   Dhu   
      
    --   
   Je suis Canadien:   
     Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais,   
     C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.   
     Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!   
      
    *A mari ad mari ad mari*   
      
     Duncan Patton a Campbell   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)