{"id":149012,"date":"2025-08-24T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=149012"},"modified":"2025-08-24T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:10:38","slug":"but-its-free-in-canada-a-13-month-wait-for-mri-to-check-for-brain-tumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/but-its-free-in-canada-a-13-month-wait-for-mri-to-check-for-brain-tumor\/","title":{"rendered":"But it&#8217;s free: In Canada, a 13-month wait for MRI to check for brain tumor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>, August 24, 2025 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Real World News<\/span><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Canada, most medically necessary hospital and physician services are covered, including surgeries, diagnostic tests, and emergency care.<\/p>\n<p>The wait times to get those services?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s another story.<\/p>\n<p>A Canadian citizen posted to X on how long she is forced to wait to get an MRI to determine whether she has a brain tumor:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6The horrifying truth about Canada&#8217;s healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday on how f*cked is Canadian healthcare: I need an MRI to see if I have a f*cking brain tumor. Go ahead guess when it is? Go ahead, guess. It&#8217;s in 2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy MRI to see if I have a brain tumor is in 2026. It&#8217;s March 2025\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ANTvweMABv\">pic.twitter.com\/ANTvweMABv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WallStreetMav\/status\/1958922112359416016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2025 Real World News In Canada, most medically necessary hospital and physician services are covered, including surgeries, diagnostic tests, and emergency care. The wait times to get those services? That&#8217;s another story. A Canadian citizen posted to X on how long she is forced to wait to get an MRI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":149013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,290,3,10,12,44,5],"tags":[470,471,6],"class_list":["post-149012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-exclusives","category-top-stories","category-world-links","category-world-news","category-world-tribune","tag-a-13-month-wait-for-mri-to-check-for-brain-tumor","tag-but-its-free-in-canada","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}