Canada doesn't have the best health care system in the world but it does have universal health care that is rated as better than the US system of medicine for profit.
More Americans travel for affordable health care than do any other country's people in the world.
Americans really don't want to open this can of worms again!
Oh, if it's so great why do your politicians come to the US for their medical procedures?
Canadian Politician Comes to U.S. for Heart Surgery
— The top politician in Canada's easternmost province has set off fireworks by deciding to go to the U.S. for heart surgery.
by Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage TodayFebruary 3, 2010
The top politician in Canada's easternmost province has set off fireworks by deciding to go to the U.S. for heart surgery.
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B.C. government to send cancer patients to the U.S. for treatment
British Columbia will send cancer patients out-of-country for radiation therapy in response to growing wait times and a backlog at home.
Beginning May 29, eligible patients will be sent to Bellingham, Wash., to receive radiation therapy at either PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center or North Cascade Cancer Center, Health Minister Adrian Dix said Monday.
The initiative will first focus on those with
breast and prostate cancer as they are the largest group receiving radiation therapy and they have waited the longest, he said. Up to 50 patients a week will be sent south for care, or about 4,800 over the next two years.
Mr. Dix blamed the backlog on
B.C.’s growing and aging population, regional cancer centres being in the process of replacing aging machines used for radiation therapy, and human-resource shortages.
With a backlog of patients waiting for treatment, the province will send eligible people to a facility in Washington State for care
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