#6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom

The following is from an essay on the health care debate by Dr. Scott Atlas, chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical School and senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. Dr. Atlas lists 10 reasons why the US medical system is better than you've heard from pop culture:

#6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. Canadian and British patients wait about twice as long—sometimes more than a year—to see a specialist, have elective surgery such as hip replacements, or get radiation treatment for cancer. All told, 827,429 people are waiting for some type of procedure in Canada. In Britain, nearly 1.8 million people are waiting for a hospital admission or outpatient treatment.
 

Be sure to read the entire piece here.

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