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A big part of the wait times is because of the healthcare coverage IMO.
In the USA, if you have a non-life threatening issue, that is more annoying than an actual problem, it usually gets ignored because nobody wants to go into debt for that.... Unless you're a millionaire or something, I guess.
Meanwhile in countries with socialized healthcare, if you're even slightly unwell (and even in cases where you're not unwell) you can get any number of procedures done to rule out any possible illness.
There's simply no good reason to not get checked out if you feel the need to be checked out.
Just to be clear, the point of my post was that I pay for insurance, pay for the visit, and I still have to wait 3 months to see a specialist. I'll then need to wait weeks or months for an appointment for any sort of procedure or scan.
I live in a place with socialized healthcare (Canada), and did a sleep study, which didn't cost me anything, in January... In about two weeks from now, I sit down with a doctor to review their findings.
The sleep study is very much a non-emergency. I did it because my lady has complained about the noise I make when I sleep, I also frequently get bad sleep for one reason or another.
It's non-critical, and I've spent more than six months waiting for results.
Bluntly, I'd rather wait longer than pay more. I know anything important/life threatening would be completed same-day, and I've had that experience too. Though, at the time, I wasn't really in a life threatening situation.
That's totally reasonable.