Long waiting lines for health care

The accepted lore of the street is that nationalized health care systems tend to have long waiting lines, particularly for non-emergency procedures, whereas the private systems, like ours, have no lines whatsoever.

Well, yesterday, I went to schedule a routine colonoscopy at my colonoscopy doctor (don't know what specialty that is). First available date, December 13th -- almost 3 months from now.

See. The free market certainly works!