Scott replies:
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Tell me about your waiting lists for non-emergent cases without
insurance, OK?

That would be, perhaps, a list used by a charitable organization.
However,
the point is that in the US, the teenager is not *prohibited* from
seeking
out and obtaining any medical care that she needs from a provider
willing to provide the service. In Canada, no matter how willing the
surgeon, no matter how ready the charity is to pay for it...or the
parents for that matter,
government bureaucrats decide who gets to be treated
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Bottom line: a teenager without insurance and without money is
"prohibited" insofar as her freedom to seek care is illusionary. Fine
in principle, nonexistant in practice.

And, can we establish somehow, some way, for the last time, there is no
"government bureaucrat" making these decisions. If there is such a guy,
please give me his title. Where does he reside in the bureaucracy? Is
he federal? Provincial? Local?

frtzw906