Draft Round 1 #23: New York Rangers Select RW Gabriel Perreault (Boston College, NCAA)

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

But does Gabe have a hot mom??

Actually his dad was NHLer so he probably does


@EdJovanovski

thank god zach wilson is in denver

 

[eco's bones]

Eh, I wouldn't be so sure that theirs is better than ours...

I don't think it's controversial to say for lots of people here health insurance is beyond their means and so they'll fall through the cracks if something happens to them and the lack of coverage is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States. Meanwhile some people get very wealthy off the misery of others.

Also Pharma---from my own experience Revlimid (lenalidomide) if you need it---the out of pocket cost per month would be around $25K. Keeping with the theme of last night's game at least half the population will deal with cancer during their lifetimes. Oncologists like to do things in threes. There will be another chemo drug to go with that + a monoclonal antibody and you'll have them a bunch of times....not just once. In my case the weekly infusions of the monoclonal antibody would go over 5 hours a time (the initial one was 9 hours)---when I went into a clinical trial that infusion just turned into a stomach shot. Without an insurance policy and if the company you have doesn't try to screw you the costs of just initial treatment are pretty astronomical. The above is just the first stage. The next stage is apherisis which is the stem cell collection which is followed by the stem cell transplant and a longish say two week hospital stay. I also had to have Zometa infusions every three months for two years. I was a union worker for the Post Office and we were able to take our health care into retirement. We pay for it but it's a group plan and we have several choices. That's not the case for most people or at least most people that I know and most people when they retire.....they fend for themselves as best they can as single individuals and it is expensive.

A lot of these drugs are much cheaper in other countries. In the United States people use to reimport their medications from other countries---particularly from Canada. American pharmaceuticals had made those drugs cheaper (sometimes much cheaper) to other countries with nationalized health care. Basically these other countries negotiated with Pharma to bring prices down. Our government doesn't really do that. Our politicians on both sides take a lot of donor money from Pharma and some years ago our politicians shut down reimportation. Same drugs produced here cost more (sometimes far more) for Americans than they do elsewhere.

 

[Killem Dafoe]

poopoo game.

5 shots though.

 

[hella rights]

poopoo game.

5 shots though.

WJC hangover?

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Entire line did nothing. Zero points. Think the same thing happen last year in the first game back.

 

[HatTrick Swayze]

They talked about it on the broadcast actually.

Going from playing against U20s vs playing against 23/24 year old men is a huge adjustment for anyone.

Right on cue as they weee saying it Perrault did a spin o rama pass into the high slot to no one that was easily intercepted and turned the other way. Was kind of hilarious, the announcers had a little chuckle and were basically like, that might be there against Germany (or Canada!) but not going to be available much in this league.