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This is not at all new. About ten (twenty? can't remember how many) years ago I was in Montreal with my mother, and I had a discussion with a local who was trying to proselytize me about the joys of the Canadian Health Care system.(Not "barbaric" like the states.) Later, the subject of Quebec's premier (Was it Bourrassa?)came up. He had just been diagnosed with skin cancer and was in the US getting treatment. The proud Canadian couldn't see an ounce of irony in the fact that his maximum leader had to hightail it across the border to get adequate care for himself, leaving rank & file Canadians to fend for themselves in a system which (even then) had patients languishing in the halls waiting days for emergency bypasses. Amazing. The dirty little secret is that in the "barbaric" US, even those folks who always seem to have plenty of money to buy the latest model cars yet recklessly choose not to buy health insurance for themselves and their families can walk in off the street into a hospital or clinic and get temporary stopgap treatment (for which the clinics & hospitals will never be compensated) which often exceeds the quality & efficacy of the "full benefits" rank & file Canadians are currently receiving via their "universal" coverage. Gradually, all the procedures are being "delisted" as elective, etc. It's a joke. Ask any of the Canadian expats working as medical professionals in my local medical center - there must be hundreds just in my off-the-beaten track town. Don't hold your breath waiting to hear their stories told on CNN or CBS or any of the other MSM outlets which have never accepted that Hilary Care was DOA in the 1990's.