Not a wives tale, I know that for sure. He was not turned away, but he was told he had to wait, and that wait would have been a little too long. I know you have some first rate health professionals, because they are getting good jobs when they come to the states. I know all Canadians are not anti-US, but my experience thru hockey is that many think they are superior to Americans. And the worst racism I've seen came from Canadians, and also from folks in Philly, PA.
On another subject. Do you know why Canadians can get cheaper drugs than we can in the US? Is it their laws on controlling prices? What if the US adopted similar laws, would drug prices drop in the states? No, it would not drop prices, it would end the availability of newer better drugs. It costs a lot of money to develop new drugs, and most never make it to market. To pay for this the drug makers must sell their products at prices to make up for the high costs. Since Canada keeps the price down, folks in the US pay higher prices. If Canada changed their laws, their prices would rise some, and ours would fall. If the US imposed similar laws to control prices, the drug manufacturers would see no incentive to lose money, and would therefor stop trying to develop new drugs.
I thank God for Canada and hockey. But I am glad I have my freedom here. Maybe Don Cherry will end up wanting more freedom of expression and move to the states!
. It's called marketing to a population that uses 42% of the world's prescription drugs , double per person than Canadians do. And pay the highest prices in the world. The price of drugs in Canada has no bearing on the price of drugs in the USA
A drug price in Canada is based on the average price in 6 first world countries , one of which is the US plus a factor for R&D that is carried out in Canada . It's based on existing prices, not some imagined figure . You make the false assumption that drugs companies are American . They are not . Lilly , for example , is based in the USA but operates in over 150 countries. Bayer and GlaxoSmith are European. All use the tax advantages and grants offered by all governments , not just the USA.
He took his son over the border to Buffalo NY
If the boy was suffering from appendicitis , were his life was in danger and were time may have been of essence , unless the Canadian hospital was literally within spitting distance of Buffalo , the father was an idiot . Does Niagara Falls Ont . have a hockey school?
( I know a young woman who , last April , developed a case of flesh eating disease which localized in the lymph glands in her groin and went to an ER with a sore stomach. Within 2 hours she was being helicoptered 260 miles to a hospital in Toronto in the middle of the SARS problem , where she was given a 5 % chance of living , went into toxic shock , actually received last rites, her heart stopped twice and recalls nothing of 3 entire days . Ten months later she's back skiing .
Sorry a vague story about a father having to wait just doesn't cut it.)