[Puppage]

If you have the means, you can purchase both insurance and care from a network of private providers and facilities

Not in Canada you can't. If you have the cash, you can't buck the system, you wait along with everyone else. It's illegal to pay a doctor to treat you ahead of others.

[RinaseaofDs]

True enough. The plans Canadians buy require service to be rendered in the US.

In Europe and the UK, they have no such law.