>>>>>Do you really think we'd stand by and die waiting for treatment? Not to say that it never happens, but it's very rare, and it's those rare cases that are presented as the norm by those interests I mentioned.
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>>>>>I do know for a fact that Andy would have had to wait almost a year for his knee surgery in the UK because it was not life threatening if he had not had private health insurance. Are you saying that that sort of thing never happens in Canada?
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>>>>In our neck of the woods it might you take a few weeks, even though there are options to go to Belgium to get you treated by some of the best experts in the field a bit quicker than that. In those cases I'm even prepared to wait a couple of weeks more to get treated by the experts in the field. In most cases it is even covered by our 'socialised' health insurance.
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>>>It is covered. In fact the whole of Zeeland depends on Belgian healthcare.
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>>I'd say half of zeeland, particulary zeeuws vlaanderen, the upper part is very close to rotterdam and it does just not make an awfull lot of sense to travel all the way to belgium from there.
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>Zeeuws Vlaanderen is a given as there are no decent hospitals in that region. But f.e. Ghent university clinic has a lot of Dutch patients from the Amsterdam & Rotterdam region. Waiting lists you see...

Correct, for certain types of treatments, patients shop and go to Belgium to get treatment. BTW, UZG, is another hospital we have to visit within a couple of weeks, but getting through the IT department is somewhat painful.