> Also, some places will not treat you unless you have a prescription from a 
> doctor... ie, you might have a problem getting a baby ultrasound if a 
> doctor does not call for it.  That's the choice for the place, and 
> possibly a restriction for accepting insurance covered people.

Yeh, if you are in the public system here in Germany (well in Bavaria at 
least), you need to get referred from your normal doctor before you go to 
see a specialist.  Or you can just pay 10 euro ;-)  It's the same in the UK 
I think, you can't just make an appointment with a specialist, your normal 
doctor must do it for you.

> It has its problems, yes.  And some people leave the US to go to other 
> countries to get different care.  Just as some people come to the US to 
> get different care.

I don't think it's the level of care that is the problem, just the cost of 
the system.

> I know a specific example where a person with eye cancer came the the US 
> to get treatment that would allow him to keep his eye.  His only option in 
> Canada was to lose the eye.

Yeh, well it's the same in the UK for the public system, they have a finite 
amount of money from taxes so they can't go around fixing everything the 
expensive way.  If they cured everyone with eye cancer rather than removing 
the eye, they probably wouldn't have enough money to save some other peoples 
lives.  But, you can always go to a private doctor yourself and pay for 
whatever treatment you want, isn't that possible in Canada?

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