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Some preeminent foreign statesmen rulers who have gotten / who are getting their surgeries done in the United States.

Daniel E. "Danny" Williams, QC a Canadian politician, businessman and lawyer who served as the ninth Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador between November 6, 2003, and December 3, 2010. [1]

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from 2005 to his death in 2015. [2]

Moses Veerasammy Nagamootoo is a Guyanese politician and writer who has been Prime Minister of Guyana since 2015. [3]

[1] 'Danny Millions' Williams heads south for heart surgery

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2010/02/03/danny_million...

[2] Waldorf-Astoria Bumps Guests for King Abdullah's Entourage / The Room Is Booked, Until the Hotel Says It Isn’t

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/business/14road.html

[3] Prime Minister Nagamootoo to Undergo Heart Surgery in the United States

https://www.thewestindianonline.com/prime-minister-nagamooto...

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The Fraser Institute, a Canadian public policy think tank, estimates that 52,513 Canadians received non-emergency medical treatment in the U.S. and other countries in 2014, a 25 percent jump from the roughly 41,838 who sought medical care abroad the previous year. In citing those numbers in its 2015 report, "Leaving Canada for Medical Care," the organization said difficulties in obtaining timely medical care at home is, increasingly, leading Canadians to seek it abroad. "It is possible [they] may have left the country to avoid some of the adverse medical consequences of waiting for care, such as worsening of their condition, poorer outcomes following treatment, disability, or death," the report says. "Some may leave simply to avoid delay and to make a quicker return to normal life." Canadians could expect to wait 9.8 weeks for medically necessary treatment after seeing a specialist in 2014, the researchers found, three weeks more than the time physicians considered to be clinically "reasonable."[1]