The US has developed many state of the art techniques in many areas of health care. Our overall health care system is bloated and over priced and generally a jumbled mess...yes, that's true....but at a micro level our country has an awful lot of amazingly smart people doing incredible things.
So if a group of American doctors develops a break through technique to treat a disease, and this technique has not yet been exported to doctors in other countries, then it makes sense that people who could benefit from it would flock to the US to receive this care. This isn't unique to the United States. It's a two way street. Canadian doctors could be the ones doing the innovating, causing Americans to flock north of the border to get the care they need. My point is, neither case necessarily speaks to whether one system is better than the other, only that both countries have a lot of smart doctors, who have the ability to plow their trade successfully. So let's drop the whole "Country X people are traveling to country Y to get care". It's not a very good indicator of the overall efficiency of the respective health care systems. On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > Um, I don't think posted that single fact as proof the Canadian system is > excellent. You just hear (read) what you want anyway so it's fairly > pointless. Not sure where you got the notion that Canada ships it's sick > people to the U.S. though. You see a lot more Americans going to Canada for > healthcare than vice versa. But you seem to live in a bit of a dream world > anyway, so I digress. > > Enjoy your perfect healtcare system Sam. Here's hoping you never need it. > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Michael Grant<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > lol Sam. Why does "healthcare" mean MRI's to you? If every man woman > and > > > child had an MRI in their garage would it be a healthy country? That's > > just > > > one tiny piece of a very large puzzle. > > > > Whaaaa? > > Larry posted the MRI in under three months as proof they have an > > excellent system. > > > > > And FYI. If a Canadian didn't want to > > > wait the approx. two weeks for their free MRI they could always just go > > to a > > > private clinic and pay for it themselves. > > > > Did they change that law? Good. > > I remember during Hillcare you could get your dog an MRI same day but > > if you wanted one you had to wait and it was illegal to pay for one > > for a person. > > > > > If there's one thing I do admire about you Sam it's your tenacity. You > > > refuse to let go of your notions regardless of fact or logic. > > > > Try to keep up with the facts and you won't have this confusion. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:302868 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
