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

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NYR Viper said:
Eh, I wouldn't be so sure that theirs is better than ours...
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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.
 
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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.
 
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HockeyBasedNYC said:

Pronman ranked Gabe #126 in Tier 6: "Middle of the lineup player" for drafted players under 23.

Under players like Leonard (38), Hutson (95), Cuylle (61), Othmann (119).

Im not gushing over Gabe, but I do feel like thats a little low for him.
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Lol, nothing to pay attention to. Here's his take on same topic from 2020. It means nothing.
Ranking the best NHL players under 23: Corey Pronman’s top 155
www.nytimes.com

Ranking the best NHL players under 23: Corey Pronman’s top 155

Corey Pronman ranks the best young players in the NHL.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
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nyr2k2 said:
I'm not going to say Pornman is an idiot, because he's not, but his ranking have always been kind of wonky. And they've seemingly gotten worse over the years.
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Yeah, I don't pay enough attention to nor know the man personally so won't call him an idiot. Instead I'll say the whole concept of the article is what's idiotic, but people love their lists so the Athletic gets the engagement.
 
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