[mgkimsal]

I may not understand what's being got at with this 'Canadian wait time' issue.

I've needed to go see my doctor - usually I can't get a same day appointment. Sometimes I can get a 'next day' - usually it's "pick some time in the next week or two". Am I now "having to wait"? It's been this way for me my entire life in the US (more than 40 years I can remember), across different states, political leadership and insurance companies.

I needed a procedure by a specialist last year. Regular checkup produced "this is serious - I'm referring to you ABC for procedure X - we need to get this done ASAP". It was still more than 2 weeks before the specialist could see me. There was an option of seeing someone else sooner, but it would have meant a 2 hour drive. That was possible but very inconvenient, and we decided that the 2 week period was acceptable vs the alternative.

Does everyone else in the US get same day service for everything they need, and I've just been wholly unlucky my entire life in multiple regions of the country? Or, do we actually have 'wait times' just like everyone else?

[Sharlin]

Well, I guess that's why you need to creatively misinterpret the statistics in order to make the argument "Canadian wait times long -> single-payer systems baaaaad". Never mind the other logical fallacies in said argument.