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Jamie Sarkonak: Canada — the medical resort of the developing world

Asylum seekers now have to pay a modest fee for some health-care services, but the overall program is still a luxury

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Medical tourism in the West is considered a luxury: you travel to a place with top-of-the-line doctors who can be seen faster than you’d ever expect at home, undertake a battery of tests more thorough than what’s generally done at home, and receive an assessment more all-encompassing than, again, would be expected at home.

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The developing world’s equivalent? Simply travel to Canada and claim asylum. Up until last Friday, a free, all-inclusive health-care package was given to anyone who filled out a refugee-status request to hold them over in the years it took to process their claim. In many cases, if they were denied, they were still covered. This included not just free........

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