Carol ... I agree with what jts told you ... examples i mentioned, such as my wife being bumped to the front of the line (still it took a little under a month), and the others I mentioned are for routine colonoscipies.

National Health care provides for accessible medical treatment for all the citizens, a wonderful process for any civilized nation ... but, the downside is, this increases the demand for medical personnel ... since the government allocates the cost, they also control the number of doctors to be 'on the payroll' .... thus an economic threshold for the number of doctors allocated limits their accessibility. One solution is to lower the standard for those that graduate from medical schools .... or lower the expectation for doctors graduating on a high $dollar$ value for their services. But, since Canada and the U.S. have a capitalist system based on a worker's value I can never see doctors going into the profession with moral, humane values foremost in their mind.

biLL