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Is there a legitimate reason you believe it will take 9 months to get a MRI? Or is this baseless fearmongering just to protect the status quo?

There are already large swaths of people who can't get a MRI period because they are excluded from healthcare in this country. And if your belief is that a single payer system will be hampered by measures such as austerity, then say that. Because then your issue isn't with single payer healthcare but instead with politicians who believe institutions need to be run as a business instead of what they actually are, which are public services.