[dayjobpork]

Apart from a terribly selfish attitude, I'd like to see proof of the wait for CT scans. Australia has mostly socialised healthcare and I've always had xrays same day and CT, Pet and MRI within a couple of days at most.

Also all those scans have been completely free.

[smnrchrds]

For Canada, the data is easy to find, since it is all public. Here is average and 90% (when 90% of the patients have received care) data for non-urgent CT scans in the province of Alberta. Before the pandemic hit, average and 90% were approximately 12 and 20 weeks. Due to the pandemic, now they are double. Ontario is doing much better. You can see their data in the second link.

http://waittimes.alberta.ca/WaitTimeTrends.jsp?rcatID=19&rha...

https://www.hqontario.ca/System-Performance/Wait-Times-for-D...

[woggy]

This has been my experience as well.

The complaints I frequently hear from Americans regarding 'socialized healthcare' never ring true based on my experience in countries like the UK or Australia.

[Spooky23]

Key word is "non-urgent".

If you have good insurance in the US, you'll get a same-day CT in a hospital setting to bring in some revenue where a quick xray would suffice.