Canadians starting to demand the privatized USA Health Care system.......

[laundry_queen]

44. Lots of times

Canadians go to the US because it's closer. My grandparents lived 5 min from the border and the closest Canadian hospital was an hour away, while the American one was less than 10 min away. So they went to the American one for emergencies, totally paid for by their provincial health care plan (I won't get into how the American system almost killed my grandfather and the Canadian system saved him after my grandmother transferred him to the Canadian hospital....) I'm not really getting what's wrong with that kind of cross border stuff. The only other people I've heard of going to the US were those who needed very specialized treatment for things they can't get in Canada simply because of our population size limitations. I mean, common sense dictates that there is more likely to be a specialist who treats a particular rare disorder in a country of 300 million vs 30 million. 'Course, we all know common sense ain't common amongst a certain subset of the population (*cough* republicans *cough*).