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I don't have the numbers, though there have been plenty of stories about Canadians suing to get reimbursed for the cost of going to Buffalo to get treated, after their requests for domestic treatment got buried in the health care bureaucracy. There also was a Quebec Supreme Court decision a few years ago holding that it's a violation of basic human rights for the provincial government to make it illegal to get private medical care. I assume the numbers are get-able, and will consist mainly of people who need non-routine things but have been put on intolerably (to them) long waiting lists to get them.
I don't know of Americans who cross the border to get medical care, though it certainly is possible. The main Canadian health-care import is price-regulated drugs, which are cheaper north of the border, for a congeries of reasons I won't go into here.
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