# Has any country with universal healthcare ever repealed it?

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**Created:** [January 18, 2017, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-country-with-universal-healthcare-ever-repealed-it/777478 "2017-01-18T17:06:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-country-with-universal-healthcare-ever-repealed-it/777478/103 "2017-01-23T16:06:32Z")

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**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:

> [@US Healthcare rant.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-healthcare-rant/776630/84):
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> [QUOTE=Northern Piper]
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> **Grim Render** , could you provide a cite for that 1,6 million? Not that I’m doubting, but it would be interesting to have that in future discussions.

Sure. But bear in mind that these are very rough figures.

[Here is a Deloitte report](http://www.medretreat.com/templates/UserFiles/Documents/Deloitte%20Report%2020091023.pdf) 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.](http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com/medical-tourism-statistics-facts)

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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