Canadian Medicine Means Long Wait Times

The Globe and Mail reports not all is well in the land of socialized Canadian medicine:

For the second time in a year, a tribunal has ordered the Ontario government to reimburse a patient for hip replacement surgery done in the United States, decisions observers say may encourage more patients -- plagued by some of the longest waits in the world -- to head south for the operation.

In a little-known decision earlier this year, Ontario's Health Services Appeal and Review Board ordered the province to reimburse a Toronto woman for the surgery she paid for in Florida after it found that the 18- to 24-month wait she faced here would have caused "medically significant irreversible tissue damage." The decision comes on the heels of a 2004 ruling, in which the province was ordered to reimburse a London, Ont., man who went to Port Huron, Mich., for a hip replacement.

The MSM in the United States doesn't want to report this,it might hurt their fantasy that socialism can work.