American Health Care Treats Canadians Who Cannot Wait

[TomSea]

The article is from last July but it does seem timely still.

Health Care
Analysis
American Health Care Treats Canadians Who Cannot Wait
Kevin Pham / July 15, 2019

Canadian Medicare, our northern neighbor’s universal health care system, generally receives rave reviews from proponents of nationalized or socialized health care, but the Fraser Institute found that more than 63,000 Canadians left their country to have surgery in 2016.

As Americans contemplate overturning our health system in favor of one similar to Canada’s, we must ask why so many leave.

The Canadian system consistently ranks low or lowest across numerous metrics in the Commonwealth Fund’s extensive survey on health care. With regards to specialists and surgeries, the United States ranked best or nearly best.

Read more at: https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/15/american-health-care-treats-canadians-who-cannot-wait/

[Fishrrman]

I looked through the original article but must have missed it:
When Canadians come south for surgery or other medical treatments, who PAYS for it? Do the patients pay "out-of-pocket"?

[XenaLee]

I looked through the original article but must have missed it:
When Canadians come south for surgery or other medical treatments, who PAYS for it? Do the patients pay "out-of-pocket"?

They probably pay out of pocket due to their affluence (being able to afford it)....

and then go back to their socialist Canadian hellholes and denounce the USA for not also having socialized healthcare.