Here's a link to a story where a Canadian woman waited three years: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-3-y...

Apparently the average in her province is about 14 months, about sixty times longer than you experienced.

We should probably not continue to wring our hands and allow our entire system to be the worst in the world based on FOMO anecdotes.

Where I live there are mri strip mall spots where you can just walk in. Same with dialysis.

Not here, gotta get a CON, which the existing facilities will fight tooth and nail to prevent.

We seem to have the worst of all options. Not a free/open market. Not a socialized or single payer.

Instead it’s all rent seeking, regulatory capture, and the rich getting richer.

Oof, CONs strike again. We really do have the absolute worst of both worlds, neither free market nor gov run. Just some fucking government locked in monopolies.