The Price of ‘Free’ Health Care: Canada Pencils in Your Funeral Firsthttps://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/11/15/the-price-of-free-health-care-canada-pencils-in-your-funeral-first-n4959362We’ve been told again and again just how wonderful government healthcare is. Free! Universal! Compassionate! Just look at Canada, the progressives say, as if they were showing off a new kitchen. Thing is, the truth keeps leaking out. From Fox News:
Kristin Logan and Donovan James say they moved to Canada with their sights set on the financial and medical benefits of publicly funded healthcare — but say they encountered a “dystopian” system that offered medically assisted death before cancer treatment, prompting them to return to the United States.
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“It was the most heartbreaking experience, to basically be set up to die. And if I wanted to live, I had to take my life into my own hands and leave the country. It’s pretty dystopian to think about now, to get information about ways that I can end my life and what the end of my life looks like before I’d even gotten an oncology appointment,” Logan continued.
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Yes, you read that right. Logan, a U.S. Air Force veteran, was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer in September 2023 at age 43. According to the couple, the first option the Canadian system put in front of her was not chemo, not surgery, not even a meeting with a cancer doctor. It was Medical Assistance in Dying, which Canada calls MAID because “state-administered lethal injection” polls badly.
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James said Canadian medical providers told the family there were “no plan to operate on her,” that a hospital helicopter was unavailable for a transfer to Vancouver and that a doctor advised Logan to “leave the country” if she had the means. The family ultimately traveled to the United States for treatment.
“Kristin was deteriorating really fast… Ultimately, we had to pull the plug and take her off the machines at the hospital and risk everything to put her in the car, drive all the way down Vancouver Island, sail across the ocean straight on a ferry, continue down over the border back into Seattle to get her immediate emergency surgery,” James said.
“The surgeon said had she waited another day, she would have gone septic and died in Canada,” he continued.
I don't think I can add any impact to that verbal picture. A Canadian doctor, working inside the system the left holds up as the model for America, quietly told a dying woman that her best medical option was to get out of the country. That was the honest advice. Logan made three trips back to the U.S. for care before the couple gave up and moved back for good in May 2025.
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The Fraser Institute’s latest Waiting Your Turn report put the median wait from a GP referral to actual treatment at 28.6 weeks in 2025, the second-longest wait the institute has recorded since it began tracking in 1993. In British Columbia, where Logan lived, the median hit 32.2 weeks. For gynecology specifically, Fox cites Fraser data showing a 25-week wait just to see the specialist, then another 15.6 weeks until treatment.
That’s more than 40 weeks. For a woman with stage four ovarian cancer, 40 weeks is basically a death sentence, ... .
She wasn’t the only one who ran for the border. The Fraser Institute estimates that more than 105,000 Canadians left the country for medical treatment in 2025, a 66% jump over the last decade. ...
Vancouver Island isn't somewhere remote like the NWT or Nunavut, it's in BC. Based on the brief description of their trip to Washington, I'm going to guess they drove ~100 miles from Campbell River to Nanaimo, took a ferry to Vancouver, and then drove another ~130 miles to Seattle.
To Canuckian pols, lethal injections are cheaper than chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and MRI/CT/PET scanners. It's an update of:
"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ..."
