Funny, I do the same thing, medical tourism in Chile. Like all Hispanics. We all get all medicine in Latin America, never in America, to the extent it's avoidable. It used to be the other way around, like I knew a kid who kept traveling for medical tourism from Chile to America because he had a rare heart thing, rare disease.

There should be flying ambulances, like international flights taking emergency patients to where they can be treated economically instead of getting signature after signature squeezed out of them, one per hour starting inside the ambulance.

> Affluent Canadians frequently travel to the US as medical tourists and pay for treatment out of pocket in order to skip the lines.

This is exacerbated in the US itself, where only the top 10% have access to expensive and timely medical treatment.

I would argue that, at the very least, Canada does offer medical treatment to everyone.

Well I’m waiting in the US. Appointment times for a dermatologist are out to 6 months earliest.

The Fraser institute is a libertarian think tank so even if their data is right I don’t trust their conclusion. So what if 3% of people are waiting on a procedure? This needs to be apples to apples compared to other countries, per capita healthcare spending, life expectancy before drawing conclusions