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So, they go either to the US or to the UK, work for a few years, earn lots of your US currency, come back to New Zealand, pay off their loans, buy a house, and live well in an amazing lifestyle that you in the US can only dream about.

gee, I see all the people of the world just flooding into New Zealand. Hell, you guys have people drowning coming over in rafts. Let's see, first you said that they have to go overseas to get paid money...... oh and THEN they come back and spend it.... so why do they advertise for locum tenums again? I mean if it's so fantastic, should be pretty easy for the home team to provide players, right?

And our Sports Medicine is certainly superior to what you get in the US. Guess why? It’s because New Zealanders on average play more sports than you do! Rougher sports where injuries are more common. That’s right: we spend less time on the couch watching TV, and more time running around on sports fields, than you lot do. Even our fat guys!

Oh really? Well ya got me... We don't know that much about knee injuries, spinal cord injuries, shoulder replacements/rotator cuff surgeries, retinal surgeries, trauma medicine, and of course "sports medicine".

We really don't know anything about that, maybe someday we'll develop a good Sports Medicine program that will provide guidance to our Olympic teams and hopefully we can win some bronze medals in track and field or gee.... curling in the winter games.

don't believe everything you read or see on the tv about americans not playing sports or participating in physical activities. Hell, we got tired of boxing and decided on mixed martial arts as a "game".

Now, you come here: we like Irish surgeons because they’ve come here to reconstruct our Rugby players’ knees. And we all play rugby. I’ve had my knee done here. Badly wrecked, but fixed good as new, walking normally same day as the surgery.

same day? well once again, ya got me. "badly wrecked" ...... is that like an ACL tear with medial meniscus tear and medial collateral ligament tear, walking as good as "new" same day, post op.....

This guy was a pussy, cause it took him a year of rehab to play in the National Football league. His agent should have sent him to your guy so he could walk out of the hospital and go to the NFL combine.

Well gee, this guy plays in a little thing called the NFL and missed New Zealand's surgeons. Click on this and tell me did your knee do that?

Kevin Everett was paralyzed from the neck down. He decided to "risk it" and stayed in the US for treatment instead of the other option..... New Zealand..... click on this for spinal injury. Separated shoulder? I did mine last year, by accident (judo). ACC covered the lot, including therapy and accupuncture. Cost me not a cent.

I wanted to save that one for last, cause it goes to the very nut of your thinking.

doesn't cost you a cent?

You're sure about that?

In other words New Zealand has an economic area where the laws of supply, demand and basic monetary policy don't exist? Hmmmmmm, doesn't cost you anything, so IT'S FREE!!!!

You're sure that this doesn't cost you anything? Neat trick.

I'll stay in the states, but I'll keep ya'll in mind if I'm badly injured.