Your post about the frog isn't the venue... but I do get frustrated sometimes.

For me and my wife, its not about medicaid or payment (we could afford to pay for it). We live in Canada, so healthcare is socialized, but its delivery is left ot the provinces. In the province we live in there simply are insufficient physicians.

I tried to bribe a physician friend with cash, he informed me it wasn't worth his career to treat my wife outside of official channels: she would have to go through his office. His office informed me they were not accepting new patients.

After we moved to this province, it took 5 years, but we finally gained access to healthcare. Now I have access to a physician within 2 weeks of requesting it.

(this excludes emergency medicine)