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If I'm an American visiting Canada then I would also be charged for any medical services I get in Canada as I do not pay taxes there nor have insurance in Canad

• kerkeslager 7y ago
  Why are you assuming the author was uninsured in NY? Lots of Candadians buy travel health insurance when visiting the US. Even with your unfair comparison: if you have health insurance in the US, it's quite easy to pay higher fees than you would uninsured in Canada. For example, compare Fidelis Care Silver[1] ambulance charge ($150 after deductible) with Canadian ambulance charge ($240 CAD -> $180.75 USD). The completely uninsured Canadian pays only $30 more than the insured American, and that's if the American has already paid their $1700 deductible, and has paid their premiums (which are more than the taxes Canadians pay toward their healthcare). And that's literally just grabbing the first US plan I looked at: I'm sure that there are worse insurance plans out there which people are forced to take. [1] https://www.fideliscare.org/Portals/0/Members/ComparisonCharts/2019-FidelisCare-ComparisonChart-QHPCatastrophic-English.pdf https://www.fideliscare.org/Portals/0/Members/ComparisonChar...