Rationed Operations Site News Single-payer advocates consistently defend the Canadian system by claiming that waiting lists in Canada are almost exclusively people waiting for hip and knee replacements. That's patently untrue. Here's a form letter given to patients whose operations were cancelled by desperate and fedup doctors at Kelowna General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada. This was given to me by a vascular surgeon who operates there. Posted by Stuart Browning 15 Feb 2007 @ 1:44pm