The American Healthcare System: A Personal Anecdote :: The Free Citizen

A little after noon, on July 18th of this year, I tore my anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). I thus began my odyssey through a series of steps from diagnosis to surgery and am currently in physical therapy. I am told that I won’t be 100% healed until about a year post surgery. The worst part, however, is that I will be unable to work for what appears to be approximately twelve weeks after the surgery.

This is a long time being disabled from work and it lead me to wonder: What would my situation be like if we had the government run system Michael Moore envisions? In an attempt to answer, here is a comparison of waiting times between stages of treatment and the median times in Canada:

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