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Old 6th November 2019, 10:49 AM   #160
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Originally Posted by Segnosaur View Post
Canada has been attempting to deal with the issue of how to allocate health care resources in a 'single payer' system (for basic medical services) for decades, and yet we are stuck with long waiting lists.
Yet it is better in the UK with the NHS and in general the US has longer wait times to see specialists than other nations that have universal care. It seems waits are remarkably bad in canada but that is not a universal feature of universal systems.
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