Do they get a special rate?

Question

I keep hearing about these thousands and thousands of Canadian’s that flock to US hospitals to get medical care. As foreigners they have no health insurance here and it costs many thousands of dollars a day to stay in an American hospital, here do they get all that money? Do they get a group rate at the border, or is this just more crap put out by the RNC? Finally as they have ne applicable insurance what financial security do they have to post before the hospital will admit them? Do they promise to leave a healthy kidney?

Are the answers trying to say that the thousands of canadains who supposidly flock to the US for treatment are affluent enough to affort the tens of thousands of dollars that treatment costs in US hospitals. But waht about those her at home who do not have that kind of money? How does that prove our system is better is we don't give treatment to those who need it?

It would appear from what Canadians are telling us that some Republicans are simply playing fast and lose with the facts about thousands of Canadians flocking to the US in desperate need of medical care. How many times are we goingt o be stupid enough to believe these congenital liars. Moronic responses about Clinton and Lewinski are an insult to any normal person's intelligence.

Answer 1

Either they leave a sufficiently large cash deposit, or they have a guarantee from the Canadian healthcare providers that the bill will be paid, or they pay for Blue Cross insurance for these eventualities.
The only special rate for Canadians is a 5% discount on imported beer in the hospital (joke)

Answer 2

The media has hyped this up a lot. It is true that Canadians come to the US for health care, but it is not by the thousands and thousands. It is only for very specialized services that are either not available in Canada at all or not covered by provincial health plans, and only very affluent customers who can pay doctors and surgeons out-of-pocket. Since most doctors in Canada are part of the provincial insurance systems, they will not accept private payment and render non-covered treatment.

Answer 3

Well, it's not "thousands and thousands"; probably not even hundreds and hundreds. Those affluent enough to afford the care can do it. The Canadian Health-care System does not treat everything equally, you wait in line, and second opinions aren't available. If you have a condition you want treated right now, well, you best come to the USA.

Answer 4

I've always been under the impression Canadian health care was free to them in Canada.

Answer 5

seem to be