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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ratbastid
...in America.
My general advice is, you want to be really careful making universal statements about things that are only true inside your own country. "Get sick and go to the poorhouse" is a truism in America, and in some places in the third world, and that's about it.
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truism means that it's TRUE all the time. I have been hospitalized 3 times, total of 7 days, 7 days, 1 day. I'm not in the poor house and I have this horrible private insurance. I chose to work for a corporate company that provides benefits. Ohhh the soul sucking corporations!!!! well, you make choices and you live with those consequences of those choices, my soul may be sucked out, but I got health insurance.
and that's the wonderful part about having been born in America. I can't tell you how many times family members, friends, travelers, tell me, "My you're very lucky and fortunate to have been born in America."
And yet, knowing without health care, they still seem to be drifting on plywood and crossing valleys and streams to get here.
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