Lets say you are Canadian. Why do I keep thinking about Kevin O'Leary? You are rich and are sick. You can stay in Canada wait your turn behind all the people who are equally sick but not as rich, and go where the system sends you, fairly like everybody else.

Or you can go to the US, flash your money and to a degree at least, choose the flashiest facilities and best advertised doctors that your money can buy.


Look at it this way, some people always want the best. They Drive a ferrari, wear Armani, belong to exclusive country clubs, have the beat boats etc. They are used to demanding a little extra and paying for it.

You can't do that in the Canadian Health care system. So they fly to the Mayo, or Hopkins or where ever and they pay enough so that the MD's treat them as well as they are treated at the Lexus dealership.