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Reality check: Canadas government health care system – CNN.com.

Here’s your government run healthcare that the OSM keeps pushing on you:

“They said to me that you had a brain tumor and it was pressing on your optic chasm and that it needed to come out immediately,” Holmes said.

Holmes is Canadian, but the “they” she refers to are doctors at the Mayo Clinic in the United States, where she turned after specialists in her own government-run health care system would not see her fast enough.

“My family doctor at that time tried to get me in to see an endocrinologist and a neurologist,” Holmes recalled. “It was going to be four months for one specialist and six months for the other.”

I don’t know about you, but I can hardly “wait” for this kind of healthcare!

Here’s something else that I find interesting:

Despite Shona Holmes’ horror story about her inability to get timely treatment for a brain tumor, Canadian officials and doctors insist most life-threatening cases are treated quickly.

Toronto’s Doug Wright can attest to that. The 40-year-old father of three young boys found out last month he has cancer — a tumor on his leg.

But he says he never had to wait more than five days to see a specialist or get a test. And from diagnosis to surgery, it will be just over a month.

“The community medical system thought this process could not have been any better. I have not had to wait to see some of the best specialists in the country, who are renowned internationally,” Wright said.

An investment adviser, Wright has the money to go to the U.S. for his care, but says there is no need.

Note how the rich guy got much quicker treatment than the average gal.  Coincidence?  Maybe or maybe not.