Those with the means to pay for US healthcare benefit from it. Those without are cut out of the system.
Wealthy Canadian medical tourism doesn't any claims that access to US healthcare is highly inequitable.
Equivalent medical tourism from the US is often to lower-income nations, most notably Mexico.
Searching on "medical tourism", two different lists give top spots to Mexico and, suprising me, Canada. The US is included in neither.
#1 Mexico: <https://medtouragency.com/best-countries-for-medical-tourism...>
#1 Canada: <https://www.healthgrades.com/pro/the-top-10-medical-tourism-...>
And a third, also giving #1 to Canada, and excluding the US from the top sixteen. Or, on clicking through to the full report, any of the 46-listed nations. <https://www.medicaltourism.com/mti/home>
Wants != needs.
Markets serve wants, not needs.
Those with the means to pay for US healthcare benefit from it. Those without are cut out of the system.
Wealthy Canadian medical tourism doesn't any claims that access to US healthcare is highly inequitable.
Equivalent medical tourism from the US is often to lower-income nations, most notably Mexico.
Searching on "medical tourism", two different lists give top spots to Mexico and, suprising me, Canada. The US is included in neither.
#1 Mexico: <https://medtouragency.com/best-countries-for-medical-tourism...>
#1 Canada: <https://www.healthgrades.com/pro/the-top-10-medical-tourism-...>
And a third, also giving #1 to Canada, and excluding the US from the top sixteen. Or, on clicking through to the full report, any of the 46-listed nations. <https://www.medicaltourism.com/mti/home>