Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
Another win for our "free" Medicare system. But, here's a question. Why is this gentleman paying 250K for a surgery that a woman got 3 years ago for 100K. Seems to me he's being assraped by the American system as well as the Canadian one.
It's our population that's the problem. Many conditions are so rare that any Doctor specializing in them wouldn't get enough cases per year to earn a living. With the US population being ten times ours, rare conditions are that much more common.
Normally our system pays their doctors to perform on our patients in such circumstances. It the failure of our system to pay for these surgeries, and the nature of the US system to 'charge all the market will bear'.