Originally Posted by CDSmith

He's got reasons of his own as to why he wants to head south and pay. For one, he can probably afford it. Secondly he probably wants some privacy to air out more of his dirty personal laundry rather than have it yet again be front and center in Canada.

But of course the second a CANADIAN is seen going to the US for treatment it must automatically mean that our system is deficient in some way. Fact is we have a pretty great system here. It's prioritized just like most other systems, and for non emergency cases there definitely can be some waiting time, no always but it does happen quite often.

But the quality of treatment we get here is second to none for the most part. It's not perfect but it's better than the crap a lot of other countries have to contend with. Case in point: the needle treatments I've been getting for the past year to control pain in my back cosst upwards of $40k per treatment in the US. I've never been charged a dime here.