I am happy for your friend, how wonderful to get one's life back. The US is not the only place on this earth that provides good medical care we are not front runners on many drugs either.
If a person is ill the should have the right to go any where in the world and get medical treatment that they deem and their family and love ones deem is best for them.
Didn't Farrah Fawcett go to Germany for treatment?
We have doctors without boarders how about patients without them?