Canadian women with endometriosis—1 in 10, debilitating pain that can mimic cancer in how it spreads—are draining savings, going into debt (~$35k), and flying to Tijuana because Canada’s “universal” system can’t diagnose them for 7–10 years or get them surgery for 30–40 months
A House of Commons report calls the care “poor.” Doctors miss bowel-threatening disease visible on Canadian imaging. Patients get labeled “routine” while half-days of work leave them exhausted and emergency-room bound.
Defenders of the system: at what point does “wait times and resource shortages” stop being an explanation and become an admission that the model is failing women at scale—costing the economy $2.5B a year in lost productivity while Mexico delivers the specialized excision Canada won’t?
Let that sink in
CBC will then be the first to have activists on to attack any domestic private element to ease the burden to the failing system
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) October 13, 2026
h/t Patti Jo

