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Originally Posted by Jayhawk

Buffalo Jim isn't far off according to this -

Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2015 Report | Fraser Institute

Specialist physicians surveyed report a median waiting time of 18.3 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment—slightly longer than the 18.2 week wait reported in 2014. This year’s wait time is 97% longer than in 1993 when it was just 9.3 weeks.

While I was working in Illinois, we had an Orthopedic surgeon who operated on his mother from Canada......at the time he told us that his mother was on a long waiting list because of her age!
Needless to say, she paid cash for hospital care here in the USA, but she recovered and went back home no longer in pain and eventually came back for surgery on the other knee.
Sounds like the "wait time" was real!