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This was one case where the best hospital in the world for THAT particular procedure was in Canada - and is primarily a PRIVATE hospital.

(Though the hospital also gets some $ from the government, so I'm not quite sure what it means to be "private"...)

I think you can have both claims to be true: the vast majority of complicated procedures are best-in-class in the US, but there are some centers of excellence elsewhere as well.