re: #479 Obdicut

Your mom is Denis Cortise? [Link: www.mayoclinic.org…]

I’m friends with Sam Hawgood and William Schecter. However— you’re right in that for critical surgical services, US citizens don’t tend to go to Canada— though that’s a restriction from the Canadian side, not from the US side. However, US citizens still do seek health care outside the US, whether it’s pharmaceuticals, cardiac surgeries, etc. US citizens do go abroad to seek health care, and the cause of it is often price— which equates to availability.

And I do not dispute that statement at all (i’m leaving Mom’s full title vague…she’s only chair of one of the major Mayo clinics). People exit the US looking for care almost exclusively for reasons of price. People enter the US looking for care almost exclusively for reasons of availability, quality, or both.

Does that sound like a fairly general statement (there will always be a few exceptions) that we can both subscribe to?