American Senator Rand Paul to have Shouldice surgery in Canada

[Chaunce1234]

When someone with access to the best of the best healthcare in the USA decides to go to Shouldice for non-mesh hernia surgery, what does that say?

Interesting to note that Senator Rand Paul is also a medical doctor, why doesn’t he want the “gold standard” mesh US approach?

The hernia-specific comments on the various articles about this around the web are also interesting, there are a lot of anecdotes about hernia repairs (Shouldice, mesh, etc).