Lets see, here in our hospital in the city the billing is $3000 a day for out of country patients. $5 goes no-where bro.
Sorry to say. And I am truly sorry to say that.
I live in Canada. I have lived a very active lifestyle. I have broken bones and smashed myself up on occasion, sometimes my fault, sometimes it just happened. I go to the hospital, they fix me up. If it is minor, I wait in line, if it was major, they rushed me in and doctors worked on me into the night to fix me up. The cost to me? Nothing. Really, nothing.
I was not left with piles of debt to pay off medical bills. I did not have to make choices like "cut off the fingers, I cannot afford to fix them". I went through recovery and rehabilitation paid for by my country and got on with my life. My medical care was first rate, excellent doctors, excellent staff. I healed. In time I returned the favour, served my country, pay my taxes and even today return what my country did for me by serving in Ground Search And Rescue as an unpaid volunteer.
I have lived and worked in the US. You have the greatest country in the world dude, I have been around enough to see it, the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD but your country has no heart. You have no compassion for the sick and destitute. I hear "I worked for mine, they can work for theirs!". Yeah, I felt that way when I was 30 too. I felt I paid too much in taxes and why couldn't everyone work as hard as I did.
I started a taxi company. Anyone can be a taxi driver, right?
I saw sincere guys who wanted to work but just didn't get it. They were unemployable, and yet had kids and family.
What do you do with them?
If you do not take care of your brothers, you still pay.
You pay for the crime, the welfare for crippled people, looking after the stupid, the coroners and police to keep you safe.
It is better to live where people are healthy and well educated.
I don't know how to fix things, but I do know that socialized medical care works, my life is a testament to it.
I do know that if you care about your fellow man you will see that anyone and everyone is cared for like the good Samaritan did in the Bible.
Your country is not the greatest in the world until it starts caring about its own people. You have to get political about this.
I pray that your brother gets good treatment and that he heals, but you have to do more than that.
You have to demand that your government looks after its people's health and education.
Then you have to pay your taxes, happily knowing you are sharing in the right thing.
I'll get off my soapbox. It could happen to any of us. We have to look out for each other. God bless.
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