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Ontario’s health care system is buckling under various pressures right now. More than 2.5 million Ontarians don’t have a family doctor and more than half of Ontario’s family physicians plan to retire in the next five years. After seeing a general practitioner, the average wait time to see a specialist is 15.3 weeks, which is up more than 300 per cent since 1993. If you need an MRI or CT scan, you’ll have to wait for those, as well. The average wait time for a CT scan in Ontario is six weeks, 12 weeks for an MRI.

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