Each year, 1 in 3 Canadian physicians sends a patient to the U.S. for treatment

“According to the Cato Institute, U.S. hospitals and clinics treat thousands of foreign patients.  The Mayo Clinic treats more than 7,000 foreigners a year, the Cleveland Clinic 5,000, Johns Hopkins Hospital 6,000; and 1 out of 3 Canadian physicians send a patient to the U.S. for treatment each year.  Why? Because the delay in health care services is not only inconvenient, it's deadly.”

• Canada's median waiting times from referral to treatment by a specialist are 5 to 40 weeks.  The wait for diagnostics, such as MRI or CT, ranges between 4 and 28 weeks.
  
  

• In England, 750,000 are awaiting hospital admission, and the National Health Services hopes to achieve an 18-week maximum wait.
  
  

• In both countries, many patients with diseases that are curable at the time of diagnosis become incurable by the time of treatment or patients become too weak for the surgical procedure.

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