Comments by "Digital Footballer" (@digitalfootballer9032) on "There Is No Such Thing As Free Healthcare | Short Clips" video.
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In my former job, I did budgets for a U.S. hospital near the Canadian border. No lie, nearly half our earnings were from Canadian patients paying out of pocket. I did the financial reports. I saw the numbers. There is a reason they come here, and it is exactly for the reasons explained above.
This is why also, that despite being a city on the decline for over 50 years in terms of industry and manufacturing, Buffalo NY has one of the fastest growing medical sectors in the country. They can't build new medical facilities here fast enough. Yes, there are other reasons such as lower labor costs and a large medical school at the University of Buffalo, but a big factor is in all the profits to be made off of Canadian out of pocket payers. You can literally throw a stone from downtown and hit someone in Canada, so you can see why (no, not that Canadians are getting injured by stones we throw at them, but the close proximity!🤣🤣🤣). Yes, Buffalo, where we are so far north that Canada isn't to the north, it is to the west! That is where the money is made in health care. Hospitals lose money off Medicare and Medicaid claims. They do turn a profit off private insurance, but nothing like out of pocket payers. They basically can charge whatever they want because they don't have to fight insurance companies for compensation. The medical sector is exploding here and that is a big reason why.
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