That's incredible, Bobert! In Canada the treatment would have been free...no charge to you....but the Canadian medical establishment would still make all that money, of course, they would just draw it from the collective tax pool, because the government would pay them. Be that as it may, the load is tremendously easier on the individual citizen that way, because the cost gets spread around evenly among 22 million people, and we aren't all sick at the same time!!! Thus it costs me WAY less a year to have full medical coverage through public health insurance than it costs the average American to get it through buying private health insurance. Americans spend MORE per capita on health costs than citizen of any other nation in the world....17% of the whole yearly budget!, and yet, the USA ranks 37th in health care among the nations of the world. You never hear an American politician say "peep" about it, except for Dennis Kucinich. They'd rather perpetuate the popular myth that the USA has the best health care in the world...and the best everything else too, of course. And people believe it!!!!!! All that proves is that if a lie is told often enough, as the Nazis discovered, it will be believed by nine of out ten citizens.