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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lapsody   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: healthcare
Date: 11/11/25 3:00 PM
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You seem to be wrong, I wonder why?

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While no exact, definitive percentage is available, a 2024 poll found that 42% of Canadians would go to the U.S. for routine healthcare and 38% would go for emergency care, provided they paid out-of-pocket. In contrast, the number of people ACTUALLY traveling to the US for non-emergency treatment is much smaller; a Fraser Institute study suggested it rose from about 1% to 1.5% of patients seen by Canadian doctors between 2014 and 2015, notes National Institutes of Health.

So it looks like they'd like to go, but in reality don't. This reminds me of the strategies I employed to see an Endocrinologist in So Cal. Calling 6-7 different ones, setting up appointments two months way, and then calling back looking for cancellations. It worked, got in in five days. Same thing when I needed a surgical ENT.

Weren't you the one insisting that the 11% inflation in the Arab Oil Embargo wasn't cost-push inflation, but was caused by the money supply? I must have missed the advanced course from MAGA U that explains that, or was it Prager U?

I noticed the audible version of that book is 13 hours. Thanks for pointing it out though - I'll put it on that wish list of books I never get to read, because... life.
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