Canadian Medical Tourism

Canada's public health care system promises universal coverage, but it does not guarantee universal access on a universal schedule. Long wait times force some Canadians living in pain to go out of country rather than wait 6 months to a year and a half for surgery for non-life-threatening conditions.

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[wjdayhome]

There have got to be free market solutions to healthcare. Instead of more gov't, how about less? We should be able to buy insurance over state lines. We shouldn't be forced to buy it either.

[fantasynerd8]

Call it socialized medicine..call it government healthcare..it's still theft.

[almetcalf]

This is really funny to me because I am thinking about going to Canada for some vein surgery that I can't afford here in the good ole USA. If I don't go to Canada I am going to Singapore. And I DO HAVE INSURANCE but it won't cover me here. So American insurance and health care can KISS MY BEHIND!

[HealthcareTourism]

Healthcare Services International in Merida, Yucatan... and better way! Safe, quality, affordable health care.

[Olebrucanism]

Capitalist Propaganda! ;)

[FIXWCBCANADA]

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE is CANADA'S BIGGEST LIE; I was just denied a specialists appointment due to the corruption in Canada;

[MaqicBlitzRS]

I'm glad that I live in Europe.

[slimydick23]

When I see a video poster such as this one uploading videos of glenn beck, they lose all credibility to me. But at least they're serving the purposes of the corporations that are bankrolling these slick video productions.

[tkmmark]

@flynn2008 Monopoly can decrease cost. It s a classic Economics 201 math problem with relevance in for example the Microsoft case with the ultimate conclusion that splitting Microsoft will not make consumers better off.

In the case of health care, more factors come into play such as the fact that a single payer system vastly reduce administration cost, not to mention it is not for profit.

And by public money, one means money redistributed from tax dollars.