Subj : Re: 'stuff...'
To   : Alan Beck
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Apr 23 2022 09:46 am

Alan,

 AB> This is concerning and I am sorry for your medical bills.

  So many folks don't have any kind of health insurance...and many of these
illegals don't have a primary care physician (PCP)...so, they use the 
Emergency Room for all their medical stuff. And, most of them are indigent, 
and without insurance. So, that's why the medical stuff is so high. Big 
Pharma hates it when certain prescriptions go generic.

 AB> When I was in the hospital wondering what it would cost if I was where
 AB> you are.

  It depends on your insurance, your condition, and how long you have to be
there.

 AB> If you come to Canada you will be issued a special number and you will
 AB> be treated for anything, for free for life. (I asked)  It's just a fact
 AB> that I did not know. I was surprised. I know a few Americans who moved
 AB> here for the Sociaized medicine out of need. I think I would confirm
 AB> what that lady said to me.

  I don't even go outside of central Arkansas anymore...especially with now
having "suspect glaucoma"...even though the eye pressures are still around
15. But, I'm getting rainbow haloes and starbursts from vehicular headlights
and streetlights...so I quit driving at night entirely. Depending on where
I am at, I have to allow plenty of time to be home by sunset. It's literally
a flashback to my childhood, when "I had to be home when the streetlight in
front of our house came on". :P

 AB> Ambulance was $150

  In the central Arkansas area, the Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services
(MEMS) ambulance service, has a program called MEMS*ALERT. Depending on
your insurance (none, Medicare only, Medicaid only, or both...and whether
or not you are renewing (that saves $5), the fee (around $70 a year), pays
for ANY emergency ambulatory runs to the Emergency Room. Without such, the
bill can easily be over $1000.

 AB> It is a drag when you possibly can't work and you need the services you
 AB> can't afford because you aren't. I know some Americans who are in that
 AB> boat.

  And, the greedy politicians in governement have no idea what's going on
in the real world...and they lament they can't survive on $175,000+ a year;
they don't have a clue. That's why there's a meme showing them before and
after the election. Before the election, they give voters the thumbs up...
after they're elected, they give voters "the bird"...vulgar, but true.

 AB> France has a wonderful medical system and housing and...............
 AB> My son lived there for a while living in a camper while teaching
 AB> school.

  I likely will be in central Arkansas until I die.

 AB> I hear Cape Breton Nova Scotia is nice this time of year

  The weather has been so crazy in many places...they just had a another 
major blizzard in the northern US. To me, the only decent "Blizzard Warning" 
is when the Dairy Queen employee says "your confectionary treat is ready"
(I keep promising myself one of these) <G>.

Daryl

.... A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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