You're not Canadian.....why would you think ,even joking, that you could get treatment here without a valid health card?

People can't pay out of pocket? Like people here order prescriptions through Canada or Mexico.

Medicine isn't a business....in order to register for an actual appointment, you need a healthcard. We are manufacturing in Canada for our citizens....

Since when is medicine not a business?

It's a right.....maybe where you are, they ask you how much you've got. Where I live, they ask me what's wrong.

It's not looked at the same way in Canada. That said, a friend has had to bypass waiting for over a year for a hip replacement, due to horrible pain, and is paying a BC doc who travels to Alberta, for her surgery. So there's some elements of privatization but not like the US. (I'm not an expert.)

But I am a Canadian, who lives abroad. So no current residency in Canada. Will my SIN work?