A Liberal Member of Parliament in Canada, home of the world’s greatest health care system according to some, has come to the United States to get an operation for her breast cancer.

I actually found some of the comments in the article quite interesting:

Flanagan
If I had her money, I’d receive my primary care in the States too. We have been saddled with a Stalinist, second-rate system.

The best physicians and the best equipment are in the U.S.

Joe
She joins a lengthy list of Canadians, including politicians who go to the United States to get treated.Unfortunately, the mythology that state run medicine is superior to that of the private sector, takes precedent over the health of the individual Canadian.
Best wishes Belinda.

jim
Sure she should get her treatment where she can if she is able to pay for it.

The story here isn’t about those who get treatment in the states. It’s about a liberal politician that is part of a political party that espoused the Canadian public system and vowed to ensure that no private health care was ever going to uspurp the current system. She is an MP for the party that relentlessly attacked the conservatives for their “hidden agenda” to privatize health care.

The irony and hypocracy is the story here. The rich get health care, the rest of use wait in line. All because of liberal fearmongering that does not allow for a real debate on the state of the health care system in Canada.

David F.
9,000 Canadian-trained doctors in the US. Why should we be surprised if some of the patients head there too? It’s time for the Liberal Party to acknowledge the gorilla at the dinner table and work with the Conservatives in a non-partisan way to start thinking about fundamental changes to our health care system. This means either raising taxes to Scandinavian levels, or openly allowing privatization instead of operating in the shadows and slowly cutting services one a a time. Let the NDP scream about zero compromise on socialized medicine, time for the mainstream parties to get a grip on this.

Kim
While living in the USA several years ago I found a lump in my breast. I went to the doctor the next day, she had me in for a ultrasound and mam the very next day. We are now living in Canada again, this time my doctor here found a lump, she sent me to a specialist ( 10 1/2 weeks it took), still haven’t had a mam. This Canadian system is scary, and needs to be fixed! I too if I had the money would seek treatment in the USA.

Whether you call it government-mandated universal health care or socialized medicine you see what some of the Canadian people think of what our Democratic presidential candidates are promising us.