Reply #24: That's pure crap. [View All]

[gcomeau]

There are some specialty procedures that you have to go on a waiting list for in order of your urgency of care, and sometimes the more wealthy decide it's worth their money to pay to have it done in the states to skip the line. The conservatives love to hunt those stories down and hype them as an excuse to keep demonizing universal healthcare with "OMG! Waiting Lists!" stories.

They tend to skip over the part where all those millions of Americans don't get care at all while they're complaining about the horrors of the people lining up to be treated up north.