how many of these 'exceptions to the rule' are legitimate cases of the unavailability of 'best treatment'. Queue triage management should ensure acute needs patients are at the top end of the queue... or skip the queue all together. Are you able to provide stats as to how many Canadians seek life-saving treatments outside of Canada (cancer or otherwise)?
There are numbers available on the web for both Canadians and Americans traveling out of country for health care. I based my '2 1/2 times' more for Americans on those figures. I believe it's something like 1.2 M Americans and the equal would be roughly .12 Canadians. The stats say something like 40,000 Canadians travel.
I should have been more precise - I wasn't speaking to so-called 'medical tourism'. Rather, I was referencing (suspect) concerns raised by 2-tier advocates who presume to suggest/imply that wait times are forcing "some number" of Canadians to seek life-saving medical care outside of Canada. Certainly there are a very limited number of specialized care/surgery options only available in other countries... but these have nothing to do with wait times in respective Canadian provinces. Of course the underlying premise has 2-tier advocates implying private health care options would preclude the need to seek these most rare specialized care/surgery needs outside of Canada. Hence my challenge to member wilber to put up some numbers/stats in that regard.
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