Speaking with my Canadian friends, none of them would have traded the incredibly long and tedious, many-month waits for treatment in order to get immediate treatment for several thousand dollars.

Then again, that several thousand dollar cost is partially a system of a broken piecemeal model of health care that encouraged the development of price extremes.

"They have a peculiar sense of ownership, which enables them to view anything that is not nailed down as theirs,
and if they can pry it loose, it's not nailed down."

-the Flerian Race, author unknown