Canadians starting to demand the privatized USA Health Care system.......

[Honeycombe8]

55. They don't get the wait stats from patients. It's reported by care provider admins...

is what I read. Presumably they refer to their records, but I'm not sure about that.

Yes, there can be, and often is, a median or an average to everything. Absolutely everything. Implicit in an average, of course, is that is a calculation of a wide range of totals. Obviously, a median is a halfway mark. Half of the wait times would be above that wait time, and half would be below.

Statistics is a pretty exact science. It IS a science, and medians and averages can be calculated on almost anything.

Canadians and Englanders can buy private health insurance. Maybe it's rich people who don't want to be treated like the ordinary riff raff? Or rich people who want to be assured of less wait times? Another poster in this chain from Canada buys private insurance for vision and other things, and it'll pay for things the nat'l health doesn't pay for, she said.