re: Rand Paul going to Canada for surgery

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The government pays the bill which is funded by taxpayers.

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is rendered completely and utterly irrelevant by

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he's paying out of pocket

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Canada is a place where socialized medicine can work, though. It has fewer people than California, and is nearly complete racially, ethnically, and culturally homogenous.

Cultural homogeneity is a HUGE benefit as far as healthcare costs are concerned.

Vast cultural and ethnic diversity, as well as the cost of getting drugs to market, are 2 of the leading factors that exacerbate US healthcare costs.

Neither of those would go away, if the US went single-payer.