[Tobra]

There are advantages to socialized medicine, cost containment is much easier, you just ration care, rather than reimbursement for care, which makes a bit more sense economically. I can think of many, many instances where millions of dollars, 1990's dollars, was spent in the last month of a person's life on healthcare. You could look up the stats on this, it is not uncommon.

Lot of grey areas in the end of life game. I suppose you could warehouse your elderly in buildings that are not climate controlled and pray for a heatwave to keep your budget in line, worked for the French a few summers ago. Saved on electric bill for air conditioning, and imagine how much they saved, just for medication, on all the people who died. Gotta be able to make tough choices.

If you think Canadians are the only ones coming to the US for healthcare I have a bridge I think you might be interested in purchasing. Try going to MD Anderson in Houston and see how many patients are from Mexico, Central and South America, paying cash.