There has been a lot of discussion since Athens about foreign swimmers training in the United States. Most of them attend U.S. Universities, receive athletic scholarships, and compete at NCAA's. Some notable examples include Duje Draganja (Cal), Fred Bousquet and Kirsty Coventry (Auburn), Markus Rogan (Stanford), and the South African sprinters (Arizona). Some train in the U.S., but don't compete for a university (Inge de Bruijn). All of these athletes benefit from U.S. coaching, from training with U.S. swimmers, and in some cases, from financial support provided by U.S. entities (athletic scholarships). They all turn around and then win medals for other countries.
A couple questions: 1) What do you think about this arrangement generally? 2) Is it of benefit or detriment to U.S. swimming to have these foreign athletes training and competing here? 3) Should we be giving athletic scholarships, which are a scarce resource in swimming, to foreign athletes who will represent their own countries internationally instead of U.S.-born swimmers who will represent us internationally?
I'm sure there are other issues, but these come directly to mind.
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Originally posted by gull80
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Once wwhen I was visiting my siblings in Houston, my oldest brother is an ER nurse at Texas Children's, I had a terrible asthma attack. I went to the first ER I could find. It was at Hermann. The next day the same thing happened. I went back to Hermann. the woman at the front desk told me that people like me shoudl go to Ben Taub. I wenmt there three days later & got better service. then i went to my sister's in Pearland. I went to the nearby brach of Memorial. teh bill from memorial was at least three times more expensive than any ER hospital bill I had ever gotten.
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Originally posted by gull80
I trained in Houston and spent quite a bit of time at Ben Taub, the county hospital. What I saw were dedicated physicians working long hours to deliver quality care to indigent patients. Ben Taub is a Level I trauma center and is considered the place to go if you're shot, stabbed or in a motor vehicle accident (the private hospitals aren't nearly as well-equipped to handle those problems). Sorry if that doesn't fit your view of the American healthcare system.
Once wwhen I was visiting my siblings in Houston, my oldest brother is an ER nurse at Texas Children's, I had a terrible asthma attack. I went to the first ER I could find. It was at Hermann. The next day the same thing happened. I went back to Hermann. the woman at the front desk told me that people like me shoudl go to Ben Taub. I wenmt there three days later & got better service. then i went to my sister's in Pearland. I went to the nearby brach of Memorial. teh bill from memorial was at least three times more expensive than any ER hospital bill I had ever gotten.
Whe i licved in St. Louis, my job was very close to the County Hospital. Twice Ihad an attack at work. I got the same type ofservice that I got at Jewish near my appartment.
