<momca...@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> One of the most often cited "horrors" is that Canadians may have to
> wait for health care access, which the citers apparently think doesn't
> happen in the US, I guess?  After calling around to the several
> dermatology clinics in this area and explaining that a blemish on my
> face that I've had for several years has begun to turn black in the
> last week, I've been offered appointments in September and January.
> We don't seem to have any dearth of doctors here-- 5 dermatology
> practices alone-- as this is an area where people come to play golf
> and bitch about how they did things different & better where they
> moved from until they die. I don't, however, have a "regular doctor"
> because, unlike those silly people who have that awful universal
> health care who go to the doctor when they don't need to, I haven't
> seen a doctor since the six week checkup after my daughter was born in
> 2000 because we can't afford it.