Canadian socialized medicine is great - for U.S. hospitals, that is

Socialized medicine in Canada is working out so well for them that they're actually paying U.S. hospitals in Michigan large sums of money to provide the care for their citzens that they can't seem to accomplish themselves:

"Hospitals in border cities, including Detroit, are forging lucrative arrangements with Canadian health agencies to provide care not widely available across the border."

One confused Canuck just doesn't see how his own situation starkly illustrates that his country's health system is strained to the breaking point:

"Michael Vujovich, 61, of Windsor was taken to Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital for an angioplasty procedure after he went to a Windsor hospital in April. Vujovich said the U.S. backup doesn't show a gap in Canada's system"

It doesn't? You were shipped to another country for an emergency procedure, you dolt. How does that not show a "gap" in your system?

Here's another example of someone whose life was saved by coming to America for treatment after they were cruelly denied care in Canada:

"Dany Mercado, a leukemia patient from Kitchener, Ontario, is cancer-free after getting a bone marrow transplant at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.

Told by Canadian doctors in 2007 he couldn't have the procedure there, Mercado's family and doctor appealed to Ontario health officials, who agreed to let him have the transplant in Detroit in January 2008."

Unbelievable.

Canadians who wish to have a bariatric procedure because they're dangerously obese from scarfing poutine and Tim Horton's donuts? Don't hold your breath, hosers, as the story reports that the average wait for that sort of surgery is more than five years.

The question still remains unanswered - where are we going to go for timely, quality medical care once the Messiah gets his wish and the U.S. begins to emulate Canada by rationing medical resources in this country?