Elites will always get the health care they require.
Yes -
On the one hand, a person has the right to spend their own money on an expensive treatment. IF, however, Canadian insurance is paying for Canadians to come here, they should a) be charged full price and b) NOT be choosing who gets to come here based on social standing, i.e., being high in government, but solely based on medical need. Canadians should be in an uproar if the Premier went to the head of the line.
Eventually, as our system will continually improve it’s capabilities and theirs will denigrate even more, they’ll become very hooked on our services and their system will become obsolete.
It’s the picking and choosing that’s the bad part in any system. We do have indigent care available here, but no one wants to talk about it now, because they want Federal (from our taxes) dollars to pay for insurance for them, so they can pay a bigger bill than Fed/State reimbursement pays for their actual costs now. Hey, everybody wants this new system, insurer, medical professional, device manufacturer, pharmaceutical, EXCEPT the taxpayer, who will foot the insurance premium bill. If the medical industry had any sense, they’d think more long term and continue to provide care to indigent using the current system, as it will come back to bite them when the gov’t runs out of money to pay for how much they want to bill. The patients (again, us!) would really suffer then, since the legal perspective and popular opinion is being prepared now to accept this down the road.