<< In this vein, didja notice that, despite all the stories you're always
reading about how everyone comes to the US to partake of "the best
healthcare in the world", when Pinochet needed back surgery he went to
England, that nasty old stronghold of socialized medicine. Not that he
was being taken care of by the NHS, mind you, but all the same... >>
I'd guess Pinochet's (and probably Clinton's) advisors were more mindful of what happened after the Shah came to the U.S. for treatment than they were concerned with possible differences in British and U.S. medical cultures.
Ken Lawrence