> So to many Canadians, at some point, the potential to make more money outweighs the UHC enough to leave Canada and go to the US to make it big. It isn't so c

> So to many Canadians, at some point, the potential to make more money outweighs the UHC enough to leave Canada and go to the US to make it big. It isn't so cut and dried. At any point these people can return to Canada and receive free healthcare again after only a year of waiting. What these people are doing is betting that they won't have any crippling healthcare incidents while they're young and banking on the fact that they can always move back to Canada to receive free healthcare for the chronic health conditions that accrue in old age. Many of these people are effectively leaches on the Canadian health care system as they do not pay taxes into it and then make use of it in old age when they return to Canada.