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The Progressive-Totalitarians can't handle the truth.
But that isn't going to deter either Willow or me from speaking up.
Go ahead and keep talking about this after it's been debunked. You're not making yourselves look any better...
...not that Willow Tree could look any stupider at this point.
What a sad sack of sophistry.
Centralized government control of individual decisions and activities always makes things worse.
In "Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada," Canada's Fraser Institute reports "that province-wide wait times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments have increased in 2010."
The always risky and sometimes deadly wait times have long been the bane of the nationalized Canadian health care system. The problem is widely known, yet the trouble grows.
"The total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and delivery of elective treatment by a specialist," says the Fraser Institute, "averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, has risen from 16.1 weeks in 2009 to 18.2 weeks in 2010. Compared to 1993, the total waiting time in 2010 is 96% longer."
The overall wait times can be broken into two intervals: the time elapsed between a referral by a general practitioner and an appointment with a specialist, which is 8.9 weeks, and the number of weeks 9.3 that pass from the appointment with a specialist to actual treatment. In 73% of cases, these exceed the wait times the specialists consider to be clinically reasonable....
Their Wait Is Sealed - Investors.com