Update: The place where Rand Paul is going to get surgery is private.

[Yavin4]

It's not a part of Canada's national healthcare system.

Shouldice was founded in 1945 by Dr. Earle Shouldice.[1][2] While private hospitals are not allowed under Ontario's Private Hospitals Act,[2] Shouldice is one of seven private hospitals in the province grandfathered under the Act.

[Blues Heron]

1. He's still leaving our system to practice healtcare tourism

Total hypocrite

[Yavin4]

3. Yeah, but...

They're world renown for this type of surgery.

[matt819]

2. So, mr Paul

What’s wrong with american medical care, the best in the world.

You fucking hypocrite.

[SidDithers]

4. Has he got a hernia?...

Shouldice is renowned for hernia repair.

Sid

[Roland99]

6. All that heavy lifting for Twitler ....

[The Truth Is Here]

8. He has 100 hernias

All named Donald Trump

[hedda_foil]

11. Yes, from the right with his neighbor.

[still_one]

5. Ralph Nader went their also. Bernie Sanders had his hernia repair done in the

the US of A

[More_Cowbell]

7. That's not really the point, to me

The point is that Rand Paul is trying to destroy the average American's access to health care, while *he* is wealthy enough to go wherever he wants to.

[fierywoman]

9. Does his US government health insurance pay for this?

[Yavin4]

10. No. He has to pay for it himself.

Although we pay him so there's that.

[Docreed2003]

12. Just my 2c

Shouldice Center is only "world renowned" in their own mind. If the "Shouldice" repair for inguinal hernia surgery was as great as they have been touting for decades, every hernia surgeon in the world would use that same approach. Their "no mesh"/"natural tissue" approach has its place in certain circumstances, but that approach is not the standard, nor is it an approach I would recommend any patient to undergo for their first option in inguinal hernia repair.