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Originally Posted by Mutt
My mother cut her hand real bad while on vacation, she went to the local hospital in the resort town, the deep cut had severed nerves - they didn't have a specialist surgeon, no small town hospital would, so they told her to drive to the city 2 hours away and get to an emergency room, where she waited again. she did have specialized surgery hours later but the wait was too long and the nerves were badly damaged - so she spent the rest of her life with very little use of that hand.
It might not seem like it's as urgent as a heart attack or a knife in somebody's neck but shitty medical care can affect the rest of your life and stories like this exist in most countries, Canada for sure. We have cases of people dying in ER waiting rooms without ever being seen by a doctor.
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True, here they would check for nerve damage and bump you up/down the queue accordingly. But if there's life/death situations going on, even if you've lost a finger, you'll still wait.
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Originally Posted by Sid70
I'm a non EU citizen in Poland, they fuck me hard demanding to pay tax... looks like they cant collect it off their citizens so they get to rape me instead...
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They do collect off their citizens, but you find 25% are pensioners on low incomes so they pay hardly any tax.
There is you, your wife and kids. What would medical insurance cost in the US.. $500+ a month? And then there would be deductables.
Why would a country let you live there if you were going to cost them money? Your kids school age?, they in private or is the state educating them?
I pay 250 euros a month for social security in Spain, that's ontop of my taxes. Does it annoy me.. a bit cause I know I`ll never pay enough in to get a pension here, atleast now they pay unemployment benefit for self employed should I ever need it, they never used to.