http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1099866.html
For those who insist that foreigners coming to the US, especially Canadians, for medical care is an indication of the superiority of the US system, this article claims 600,000 Americans flee the US system for care sometimes in third world countries. My guess is there are even more than 600,000.
My claim, if you believe in free markets then the evidence is that the US system is not superior to say Canada based on Canadians traveling to the US.
You realize that there’s hardly any regulations on the supply of medical services in those third world countries, right?
i assume they take steps to ensure proceedings are not un-islamic.
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I’m not sure how medical procedures can be unislamic, but the sentiment is appreciated.
What exactly are you trying to tell us? That the US has a free market health system and it still sucks?
No, what the group in Jordan is saying is that the system in the US is hosed up and you are better off coming to Jordan for medical care. It is not a comparison between the systems in the US and Canada. If it had been then they would have advertised in Canada as well. The only problem for the Canadians and others with completely socialized health care is that there is no exit option. Everybody is forced to pay for everybody else. At least in the US the average citizen is only forced to pay for the veterans, government employees, poor and elderly. That is a lot but not everybody.
Every country beleives they have the best medical care. It’s so rediculous.
Congratulations, you have successfully demonstrated that free-market capitalism cannot work. The debate is over, Marx was right!
Marx didn’t predict that capitalism would destroy itself because of healthcare…
Marx isn’t the only one to predict the end of capitalism
What we have today isn’t free-market anything.
I know Cain, I was being sarcastic/trolling.
I think you are a secret Marxist!
He’s a witch! A WITCH!
Someone get me a giant scale and a goose!
I’M EXPOSED!!
It is a common arguement that the US system is better than Canada because some Canadians choose to go to the US for care. It turns out that Americans in large numbers are going abroad for care. So that arguement against Canada care does not work.
Actually it does.
Lets create a simple flow chart.
Canada is crappier than America and America is crappier than Jordan; or Canada < America < Jordan.
Its very likely that Jordan has the most free healthcare of the three and that Canada has the least free. Which makes our flow chart match laissez faire theory.
Or were you suggesting that people would travel in order to receive inferior healthcare?
Owned.
That is all.
I hear the arguement that the US health care system is superior becuase people travel hear to get care. But as it turns out Americans also travel to get care. That;s fine with me. It is also unclear if Americans travel to Canda for care. At any rate the cross boarder health tourism cannot be used as an arguement inflavor of the US system.
Not sure if this is a joke or not, but either way it made me laugh out loud. Thanks! [Y]
Do you even know why people travel abroad for health care? Is it due to cost, quality, availability, or a combination? Such details are probably important to understand what’s happening… (Where are you getting these numbers to make these conclusions anyway?)
I was quoting one article from a main stream source Ha’aretz.
Once again my point is to refute a common argument: The US system is better than the Canadian due to medical tourism. The US it seems also has medical “tourism”. Tourism is probably the wrong term as it is really outsourcing or perhaps medical imports. The US system may be better but not for the medical tourism reasoning.
BTW, I had a deep root scaling done aboad, and it was half the price and was probably better than what I would have gotten in the US. The procedure was done by a dentist, not a hygenist like in the US, and he did not need to use anesthesia. Sample size of my observatons = 1.
Then you must believe that people travel to another country because they desire inferior care than what they would get in their home country.
You’re just trying to make me regret crafting that fine flow chart for you, aren’t you?
Its possible for the USA to be better than Canada and still be inferior to Jordan, whats hard to understand about that?