A Yahoo user claimed that Canadians coming to the US for healthcare was a "FOX news myth"?

To answer your question;

As a Nurse in Northern MN I can verify that many Canadians come to America for Health care, because I treat them.....Its no myth it is FACT. The Canadian health care system is so inept with not enough doctors and long waits that if it was not for America, many of Canadians would die waiting for care in Canada.

Of course one could look up the actual statistics on the number of Canadians who leave Canada for health care.

In 2010, an estimated 44,790 people in Canada received a non-emergency procedure outside of Canada. This is based on polling done on doctors by asking the question "How many of your patients have received a non-emergency procedure outside the country within the last year". This number would include non-Canadians (over 140,000 non-Canadians work in Canada and some 90,000 have study permits), recent immigrants (250,000 or so per year), Canadians who were living outside the country, military personel, foreign diplomats, etc. This would put the number well under 0.13% -- probably in the 0.05% or less.

Next, the study doesn't say that those people had their procedures in the United States or that the procedure would have been covered by provincial health care plans -- it could be cosmetic.

Just for comparison, in 2005 one Bumrungrad Hospital in Thailand served more than 50,000 American patients in one year. In other words, there is a single hospital in Thailand which treated more Americans than all the Canadians who received treatment overseas. And there are hundreds of hospitals in India, Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico who are only in business for Americans.

Our health care system is about payment. What you're talking about is medical expertise and waiting lists. No matter what kind of health care system you get, I doubt that it would affect the doctors or the waiting.

I'm not pretending it's perfect. But I do think *some* kind of health coverage is better than none.

My mother spent 20 years with her last illness - some in hospital, some in rehab, some in residence. The government paid the whole thing. The family paid not one dime.

The actually had to beef up staff at some Michigan hospitals to ahndle the Canadians coming over the border. In some cases they are getting treatment they cannot get in the great white North and the bill is being paid by the Canadian Health Ministry.

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/21/canad...

Danny is also the richest man in Newfoundland, he chose Miami because 1) He could easily afford 2)He owns a Penthouse in Miami where he intended to recouperate, as Newfoundland is not really appealing in the winter. Belinda is the richest woman in Canada, Magna Autoparts, she had a small skin cancer removed and a face and boob lift, two areas which Americans excel in, and are not covered under OHIP anyway...........American Hospitals are good, no one is denying that....but 500,000 Americans a year go bankrupt trying to pay the bill............NOT even one Canadian.....

....and yes our Health Care does pay on occasion for US health care, we receive the maximum payment discount not offered to Americans as "volume users" and "guaranteed payment"......I'm sure your American Health Care would send you to Canada if the service required was not readily available too...right???????

..I know that I have the exact same health care plan as the prime Minister of Canada......is yours like GWB's..or Obama..

On any given day the neo-natal units in Montana are full of Canadian pre-mature children from Alberta. The mothers are evacuated there, usually prior to birth, due to the severe shortage of neo-natal units in Alberta.

The bill is paid by Alberta's health care system.

hundreds of times more poor people go to other countries to get free healthcare because they can't get it in their own country. So, do you just think the lives of the wealthy minority are somehow more valuable than everyone else, or what?

The "best" healthcare system is the one that takes care of the most people. Not the one that best serves the wealthy minority and leaves others to die.

There is no excellence in the People's Democratic Socialist Healthcare system.

Rich folks from all over the world access health care in the United States. It should be noted that the care provided to the wealthy here is simply not accessible by the vast majority of American citizens, who are not rich...

Thanks for bringing this to Y/A's attention.

Many left-wingers here are in denial.

And you had a nurse from Mn. who empirically supported your point.