It's finally happened!

No, Americans seek care overseas because it’s cheaper, see “Medical Tourism”.

They also do it to get things like face lifts and tummy tucks done with absolute privacy and too recover in exotic tropical locations.

They aren’t seeking it overseas because of wait times or lack of availability in the US like Canadians and Europeans are.

Democrat Politicians want to make America into a Socialist country, and yet, it’s
because of our economy, and because of our Capitalistic ways, and
how we have been more Conservative than Democratic Socialist, is what distinguishes
us so much from other countries. It is what allows us to thrive so much!

So why would any political Party(the Democrats) ever want to change that?

… or to get “miracle cures” from charlatans who prey on desperate, terminally ill people who feel they have nothing to lose.

Unsupported opinion noted

And let’s not forget: cheaper prescription drugs!

Why do so many have higher standards of living that the US?

https://amp-businessinsider-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.businessinsider.com/19-countries-with-the-highest-standard-of-life-according-to-the-social-progress-report-2016-6?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

Why do so many have higher standards of living than the US?
Than, not that.

Why do so many people from other countries want to come to the US, compared
to other countries?

True, or to seek new treatments that have yet to be approved in the US but are well proven abroad.

Our approval process can run longer than a decade even if said treatment has been mainstream for many years abroad.

It’s completely supported by the Europeans and Canadians coming here to beat those wait times or to pay cash for treatments that they’ve been denied in their home countries.

Yep. That’s why there were not (and are not) a lot of thalidomide babies (and now adults) born in the US. The drug was marketed as a mild sleeping pill safe even for pregnant women (and even prescribed for relief of morning sickness in many countries,) in most of “progressive” countries like Canada, and Western Europe. In spite of the optimistic promises from the health industry, jumping the gun on medical procedures and drugs can have very dire consequences for trusting despirate people.

Oh I remember, it was going to be the wonder cure for morning sickness and women were appropriately jumping for joy.

Fortunately the side effects were noticed pretty quickly and it never went into wide use in the US.

Actually, it was never approved for marketing and distribution in the US, but it was distributed by the manufacturer for testing. As a result unfortunately, there were several malformed babies born to women involved in the tests.

Yep, it was caught in the early trials.

https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation

That didn’t stop the pharmaceutical companies from continuing to demand approval by the FDA several times, before the pictures of grotesquely disfigured babies in Europe started showing up in the News in this country.

Yep, again, I remember. Dad was getting out of the Army and headed to Pharmacy School, Grampa was running the family Pharmacy so it was “dinner table conversation” around our place.

Canadians! Sometimes I think that we need to build a wall on both borders.

I’ll just take the Southern one to start out with.

I look at back then, how men were real men, and now a days at the millennials,
and I think to myself Wow! *** happened!? lol.

The most dangerous thing about Canadians is they have access to the internet and can’t seem to mind their one damned business.

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It all started going to hell in the late eighties/early nineties with the feminization of men.

In today’s society black is white, up is down, and the Democratic Politicians
have made it so there can’t be any grey in between.