I hear stuff like this, and I want to choke a bitch whenever I hear people complaining about "socialist medicine" in Canada, and how it's so much better in the US, they don't have the waits we do, etc.
I've watched my mom go through a shitload of health problems in the past 8 years, including a couple of surgeries, several hospital stays beyond that, more testing than I can even recall, myriad visits to specialists, very regular monitoring by her GP (sometimes weekly office visits, sometimes monthly, depending on the situation)....and it's all been free, and NONE of the waits have been unreasonably long. Also, we're in an underserviced area. I can't imagine that our situation is unique, and that we've somehow just gotten lucky for 8 years.
Lila, I'm truly sorry for what you're going through.
When people talk about Canadian health care as if it's substandard, don't believe it. They're spreading lies of socialism and inefficiency that simply are not true. Americans deserve the care that we have, and I cannot fathom how an otherwise civilized nation could make its citizens jump through hoops for health care the way the US does.