As for those notorious waiting lists, some countries are plagued by them. As we’ve seen in this book, Canada and Britain limit the number of specialists and operating rooms in the system to save money, with the result that patients wait weeks or months for nonemergency care. But other nations—Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark—perform better than the United States on standard measures such as “Waiting time to see a specialist” and “Waiting time for elective surgery.”
