BERLIN (Reuters) - When a wealthy Arab patient flew to Germany for medical treatment last year he arrived on his own jumbo jet filled with so many bodyguards, staff and family that he rented an entire luxury hotel floor for his month-long stay.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=3169653

Arabs are traveling to Germany for healthcare? And here it was I thought that Americans were the only ones trying to get cheaper perscription drugs.

Well, you can't blame him. Most people prefer to have their orifices checked by medical personnel and lovers only, rather than US airport workers who think racial profiling isn't bigoted and that shooting suspicious people would be a great idea...

Well, you can't blame him. Most people prefer to have their orifices checked by medical personnel and lovers only, rather than US airport workers who think racial profiling isn't bigoted and that shooting suspicious people would be a great idea...

Obviously.

I was also pointing out that most Americans are traveling to Canada to get better health care. Not to mention that current bill that would allow Americans to buy perscription drugs from other countries.

If I was an arab I'd avoid america too, but of course it would be no where near as scary as being an american in the middle east now would it?

It's obvious.

Why would you go to a country that says "hey look an arab" and randomly detains you for no reason?

I agree with your original point. The US has always been reactionary. However:
...most Americans are traveling to Canada to get better health care...
I believe to be false. I know a few people who buy medicine from Canada, but none that go there just for medicine. As far as most Americans traveling to Canada for health care, most Americans have never been there.

I wonder why....

Originally posted by Clockwood
I wonder why.... haha, touche.

I know a few people who buy medicine from Canada, but none that go there just for medicine. As far as most Americans traveling to Canada for health care, most Americans have never been there.

True. It's not that Americans are traveling directly to Canada, but buying drugs from there. Im not saying that every American is flocking to Canada, just that some might go there for cheaper cancer treatments.

And what is the name of that bill that would allow Americans to legally buy FDA approved drugs from other countrys?

I was also pointing out that most Americans are traveling to Canada to get better health care.

HELL no. To get cheaper prescription drugs. That is IT!

The current health care system is collapsing. We have less docters than we did 5 years ago. Population increased, but nuber of hospitals decreased. The waiting time for hip replacement surgery is now more than 15 months. The waiting time to SEE a specialist about it, just for a CHECK UP, is now over 5 months. To get an MRI is now more than 9 months.

*cough* I don't even have a family doctor. Why? Because no one takes more clients... My town has like 8 doctors and they're all full. If I ever need medical assistance I have to either go to a walk in clinic or the ER. And now people wonder why some Toronto hospitals have an 8 hour waiting list for admittance into the ER... Err, there isn't enough beds either... So they have to keep the people in the ambulance.


In all my travels, and I've lived in 4 countries, Canada has the worst medical system in the world. Yes it is free, (where free EXCLUDES dentists, eye doctors, medicine, prescription medication, and a crap load of other stuff), but what use is it being free if you're gonna decompose before you get a chance to get medical attention? Shit, even Thailand and Malaysia were more advanced. Canada is like a fifth world nation when it comes to health services.

<-- is thankful for private insurance.

Thank you for that correction, Jerrek. Not for better health care, but cheaper health care.