An innovative insurance product is available in the workplace to help you avoid the longest health care waitlists. The line-ups will still be there, but your wait for treatment could be shortened.

“A BC woman who has contemplated suicide because of the excruciating pain in her dying left knee said yesterday she will pay more than $20,000 to get surgery in the United States rather than wait up to 24 months for the operation in Canada.”

“Like booking a vacation, there's plenty of package deals to the US for BC residents willing to pay to avoid lengthy waiting lists for surgical procedures.”

“He's already walking comfortably, and his scars are fading, but he's realistic it'll be about a year until he's recovered. That seemingly long wait is still a year shorter than the time it would have taken just to get to the top of the surgery wait list in BC”

“OneWorld Medicare charges customers a retail price after arranging wholesale costs with American hospitals and physicians to perform surgeries. Executive director Mike Starko said the company believes the market for arranging surgeries is small now, but will grow.”