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The entire city of Montreal (almost 2M people) has a grand total of one "official" MRI machine. The government turns a blind eye to illegal operators of MRIs because obviously they can't get by with only one machine.

Some of the other problems with the Canadian medi-care is that it is an age based triage system, which means that the older the patient, the less access to care and the more likely you are to die of preventable causes. Canada also has the highest number of of enrollees in a public health care system and the lowest per capita number of physicians. There is at least a two month wait to see an oncologist after being diagnosed with breast cancer, longer for some other specialists. Of course the most glaring fault is that the politicians and the wealthy are exempt from this fate.

Straight Vermonter, I just came back from my sister-in-law's funeral in Stowe and I have to say that Vermont has really become the state of the haves and have nots. What a bunch of phony hypocrites, offering all that socialism to the poor native Vermonters, while the wealthy new comers seek medical care elsewhere.