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Originally Posted by cornholio

Canadian health care system is pathetic and one of the biggest draw backs to living here considering you only have one health / one life. My wife who is Brazilian and all her Brazilian friends go back to Brazil or the US for all treatment. She has many Mexican and Latin American friends (worked for a Spain company for well over a decade dealing with Latin America/EU and speaks near native Spanish) and they also go back home or to the US for treatment. They are all afraid of the Canadian health care system. As for me I am originally from central/eastern Europe and everyone I know also goes back home for any checks / screenings/ and major problems. I have gone through the Canadian health care system my self a few times due to serious injuries and never again. I am lucky to be alive and in other cases I suffered for way too long before being treated. My mother was a nurse back in Europe before coming here and she is horrified of the system here, now she spends time back and forth and makes sure she gets all her treatments and screenings back home. The Canadian health care system is broken and dangerous, which is unfortunate because Canada is a great country.

As for Jebby, I think I made my point. Don't get me wrong, I know how Mexico functions and I know where your family fits in. If I was in your shoes and born into money that has probably been passed down for generations I would do exactly the same thing. I however was not born into money, I was born in a communist country with nothing and came to Canada with my family as political refugees with literally nothing, not a single dollar and just the bags we could fit on the plane. No inheritances. No nothing. Everything me, my family my brothers built is from nothing, and we have all done very well.

Also as for someone asking why live in Mexico City? If you have money and speak Spanish then Mexico City is a great place to live and much better then Vancouver. If you don't have money or are just middle class then Mexico city obviously sucks. Mexico is a very unequal country and it provides a very good life for those at the very top, very good life and the 80's/90's are over and done with and the risk of a leftist uprising is as low as ever, hence Jebby's family going back.

Here's the irony...access to scarce (good) health care benefits in the U.S. and even Latin America for that matter is a relative cost function of supply and demand...where MOST are RELATIVELY poor and thus unable to put significant demand pressure on the respective national health care system at the top end of service delivery. Hence, there is greater access to certain types of medical services (at the lower end) the quality though (as is the case with Medicaid) being questionable.