Dany Mercado, a leukemia patient from Kitchener, Ontario, is cancer-free after getting a bone marrow transplant at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
Told by Canadian doctors in 2007 he couldn't have the procedure there, Mercado's family and doctor appealed to Ontario health officials, who agreed to let him have the transplant in Detroit in January 2008.
The Karmanos Institute is one of several Detroit health facilities that care for Canadians needing services not widely available in Canada.
Canada, for example, has waiting times for bariatric procedures to combat obesity that can stretch to more than five years, according to a June report in the Canadian Journal of Surgery.
As a result, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in April designated 13 U.S. hospitals, including five in Michigan and one more with a tentative designation, to perform bariatric surgery for Canadians.
If we had the Weiner plan, where would we go? Mexico?
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Luckily, I think the administration has said an explicit no to Canadian-style health care. And for the record, some British Lord or other was just on NPR being all bitchy about how Americans should stop poking fun at socialized health care - apparently in Britain everyone is admitted immediately for free regardless of cost or age; for supporting evidence they interviewed a postman.
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