re: #884 SixDegrees

Canada’s health care system has actually been a small boon to the Detroit area, where a number of small specialty clinics have sprung up over the years to service Canadian customers. MRI clinics seem to be the most popular.

Interestingly, this has led to greater demand for small, cheap MRI machines; these have less capability than their full-size cousins, but are perfect for scanning an arm or a leg, for example. So the US gets a double benefit - they sell the service, and get the spinoff technology created by the new demands of the marketplace. Maybe someday we’ll even wind up selling some of these smaller, cheaper machines to Canada, but change in government-run systems is glacially slow, so that won’t happen anytime soon.

And the Canadian government pays for healthcare here when Canadian’s cannot get what is needed there. (It’s called OHIP - Ontario Health Insurance Plans. Each province differs on specifics, I can only speak to Ontario.)