LordBrownTrout I live in florida where lots of canadians spend their time-----when they get really sick, instead of waiting in canada with their rationed care for things like hip surgery---they come to the US to have it done. Canadas health care suck.
Hip surgery is not an urgent need. Most people go for years before they finally get it.
I would get it done for free in Canada rather than pay $100,000 here
Hip surgery is a lot more urgent than a Sex Change or an abortion, I'll tell you that for sure.
It isn't an "emergency" but it is needed, particularly in the current age where more and more doctors are hesitant to help their patients cope with the pain with oxy scrips.
If I needed it, I would rather get it done by a Competent surgeon, not some socialized medicine quack. Its still a medical challenge, and even native born Canadians like Alex Trebek come to America when they have a health challenge instead of relying on Canada's failed system.
You have to wait for hip surgery in Canada, maybe six months, but you will not receive a bill
In the US, you may wait six weeks and face a substantial bill later
i have met many people who got that surgery including my mother-in-law who was on SS....no bills.....
Depends on your coverage
Most people have 80 percent coverage, many can only afford much less.
It s free in Canada
It isn't "free" anywhere. The taxpayers get subjected to more financial assrapery in Canada.
And besides, the question isn't "price", its QUALITY of service as well as QUICKNESS of service. Something libs never even address. In countries like Canada, they delay treatments for long periods of time, hoping the patients die first so they don't have to do it. Orthodpedic surgeons never go to the morgue to replace the hips of patients before they are interred, regardless of how long they've been on the list.
And QUALITY is the issue. Canadian subject Alex Trebec had a very serious health crisis. He didn't go for the "free" treatment of his native land, but had his procedures done in America. Quality was important to him, as it is to millions.
