Stronach went to U.S. for cancer treatment: report — CTV

Canadian MP Belinda Stronach has traveled to California for surgery as part of her medical treatment for breast cancer.

“Belinda had one of her later-stage operations in California, after referral from her personal physicians in Toronto. Prior to this, Belinda had surgery and treatment in Toronto, and continues to receive follow-up treatment there,” said MacEachern.

He said speed was not the reason why she went to California.

Instead, MacEachern said the decision was made because the U.S. hospital was the best place to have it done due to the type of surgery required.

Although evidence like this is by nature anecdotal, it certainly gives one pause when thinking of the health care systems in the United States and Canada. It goes without saying that the U.S. has problems with health care, but unlike what Michael Moore would have you believe, Canada (and other countries with socialized health care) has significant problems with their health care systems, too.

Politicians have the best of both worlds, as politicians, in societies with socialized health care: they live in a system where the people are dependent on them, thus furthering their own careers, and they have the personal means to travel elsewhere for their own health care when necessary.