Grim Render, I just realized that I never thanked you for your response to my request for more information on this point in that other health-care thread:
Sure. But bear in mind that these are very rough figures.
Here is a Deloitte report from 2009 that estimated that numbers will hit 1,6 million in 2012, with further growth down the line.
While, on the more conservative side, Patients Beyond Borders estimated 1,4 million in 2016.
As far as I know, no-one checks why an American travels across the borders outbound or runs any kind of statistics on that. I believe the numbers have generally been obtained by surveying a number of foreign hospitals about their paying patients nationalities.
Hence, people who filch healthcare in Canada doesn’t get registered, nor people who obtain it through being resident and legally entitled. On the other hand, people do check why foreigners come into America, so the 80 000 number is on firmer ground.
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