# Brock Lesnar - even more stupid than he looks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 21, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828 "2010-01-21T12:24:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/81 "2010-01-22T20:14:03Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > I suppose that’s the difference. If you want 100% utilization of the machines ( no down time) you can’t provide for maximum demand, only for average demand, which means longer wait times when demand spikes. > > It’s a different [story](http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/09/canadian-medicine-is-sick.html)in the US. We have more MRI machines than anywhere else, and it’s pretty easy to find openings, either at hospitals or at private machines. The ability to accomodate non-necessary MRI’s simply drops the costs (avg MRI cost in the US is comparable to Canada) and especially the wait times for everybody involved. There is certainly ideal point between having too many machines and techs sitting idle and having a waiting list that is too long. No down time (100% utilization) is unrealistic. Provincial health care systems strive to get that ideal point just right. When waiting lists get too long for a particular procedure or medical imaging solution, there is intense public pressure on the system to improve. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/82 "2010-01-23T04:27:17Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Dude, in all fairness to Bismark, Wouldn’t it be slightly fairer to spell it correctly? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/83 "2010-01-24T03:18:32Z")
The Canadian medical system correctly diagnosed both intestinal diverticulitis and brain rot without needing to do a costly scan. The American medical system used an expensive scan that failed to diagnose the brain rot. Canada 2, US 1. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/84 "2010-01-24T16:15:50Z")
You forgot they misdiagnosed him originally. Canada 2, US 0. Please note, however, the US system still managed to turn a profit! Patient Care 0, Capitalists 1. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/85 "2010-01-24T18:59:06Z")
Give the guy a break. He created a George Orwell-style investigative journalistic expose of the US & Canadian health care systems, for OUR benefit, and here we are making fun of it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/86 "2010-01-24T19:21:38Z")
Never underestimate the power of the white trash red state hillbilly pro wrestling fan vote, that’s how Bush got elected twice and why the Republican talking heads are going to make hay out of Brock Lesnar’s questionable tale. I think what Brock SHOULD say is that Canada, as of now, has no magic cure for the side effects of all the steroids he has been abusing, which probably lead to his condition in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/87 "2010-01-24T19:22:43Z")
> [@Number](#): > > Wouldn’t it be slightly fairer to spell it correctly? Is “slightly fairer” a grammatically correct phrase? ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828/88 "2010-01-24T20:30:59Z")
Yes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brock-lesnar-even-more-stupid-than-he-looks/525828.md?page=4)