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   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) .   
      
   Daryl   
      
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