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Or as Dad would say ... "Just drink more scotch!!!"
At 03:03 PM 9/1/2001, Aerofoam wrote:
> > But it will cost alot less, regardless of the fact that the
> > government in Canada is the "insurer" (health care services in
> > Canada are private). The health care is often superior to that
> > in the US (unless you are very rich).
>
>Most cruisers I know of have just payed cash for their medical coverage
>outside the states. Example, emergency appendectomy with airlift to La Paz
>and 3 days in the hospital, $1800.00
>I just met someone who took a 2 week vacation to Thailand just to get dental
>work done. She had 10 fillings re-done and a crown for under $200.00 U.S.
>The entire Vacation on an island in the S. China Sea with dentistry in a new
>hospital facility cost under $2000.00 The dentist was trained in Britain.
>I would have paid a local dentist more than that for 1 good crown!!!!
>I have been watching the health care situation in British Columbia, it's a
>joke, people are being turned away from emergency rooms or waiting over 20
>hours to see a doctor. Socialism never has worked, but greed is just as
>bad......
>
>I had Health Insurance with Conseco at a cost of about $2K. per year, but
>they denied the measly $220.00 in charges that incurred the first year and
>made me do all the inquiries to the doctors office about the billing!
>What the hell did I pay them for????
>
>M. Mech (uninsured)
>S.V. Desert Wind
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