Having the machine capacity to get non-urgent MRIs in hours is part of why US healthcare is so expensive. Anyway, the average (again for non-urgent MRIs) where I live in canada is 9 weeks, which is i am sure skewed due to the rural population. In the city it’s like half that.

Yep, in the US my wife had to wait a day. She could have gotten it the same day, had her injury been a little worse.

There's this idea that there are no upsides to the American system, only downsides.