No I did not and that was their issue. They had no way to take cash or to bill me. In fairness, that's a pretty small little city and I don't think they had ever heard of a US resident with no health insurance. But still, contrast this with the experience in Quebec.
The Xray was fine. Final diagnosis -- hematoma. Huge but just a hematoma. Nonetheless, after 2 weeks of difficulty walking I think I can be excused for pointing out that I had the symptoms of a fracture, hello. The MRI thing is something Sam keeps bringing up, ask him. I remember it as anecdotal rumor (also heard in Sault Ste Marie) but no specifics. This would have been the summer of 2001. The rationing exists though; had I signed up for an OHIP card that summer (I was unwilling because the implications for my US green card were unclear) I would have gone on a waiting list to be assigned to a general practitioner. Six to ten months. My mother, who lives in Ottawa, has been waiting a couple of years for a GP. She waited several years for knee surgery. Relatives were told that they didn't care what new-fangled genetic tests there were in the states; that OHIP simply did not do genetic testing. On a similar note, my dad (in Great Britain) apparently had a doctot who thought that sleep apnea was some trendy American thing. So let us not talk falsely now; the hour is getting late. Neither the British system nor the Canadian system is perfect. The situation in Ontario as I understand it is that there is world-class care in Toronto and the metropolitan area. Once you get away from there you do run into sporadic shortages of equipment that should have been bought when they had that neo-con in power up there, but was not because Government Is Bad. And yet. As I point out, people don't seem to die of neglect there, and that is an improvement over what happened to Cathi. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Michael Grant <mgr...@modus.bz> wrote: > > > > > When people talk about waiting lists for MRIs, they are talking about > > Ontario; > > > How many years ago was this? > > > > That's the place where I had to threaten to drive over the bridge and > tell > > US immigration that I needed > > emergency medical care before they would xray my leg > > > - At the time did you hold an Ontario Health Card? > - What was the result of the xray? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:302765 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
