re: canadians friends going to america for health care

i live in canada and we have private medical clinics and public hospitals that cater to americans who come up here to access cheap medical, dental, and eye care...there are a few private medical clinics in my city that have been serving americans for years...we also had busloads of american senior citizens coming across the border to fill their prescriptions...providing medical care to americans is big business up here, and the economic crisis is probably going to drive more americans north to save money


cambie surgical clinic:
Cambie Surgery Centre - Vancouver, BC, Canada

false creek surgical clinic:
False Creek Surgical Centre - Vancouver Surgery


Ontario MDs to launch medical tourism firm

LISA PRIEST

September 30, 2008

Ailing Americans will soon be able to buy surgery at bargain prices in Canadian hospitals through a new medical tourism company founded by two physicians.

Markham-based anesthetist Shehbaz Butt says he can provide international patients quality choices through his company, Canadian Healthcare International Corp., at rates drastically lower than those in the United States.

"We realized that we can help the international patients while indirectly helping our local patients by creating additional revenue for Canadian hospitals," Dr. Butt wrote in an e-mail. He said the procedures would not interfere with care provided to patients here.