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Originally Posted by Sarahmay
Pardon me, but you are Canadian and you already have nationalized health care. Do you realize that over 50 million Americans have no health care at all? Would you prefer to trade in your system for our current one? Because the way it is now totally sucks.
Just asking.
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JUST AS I OPENNED THIS THRAED, THE PHONE RANG and it was the dreaded county hospital calling me in for some brain test tommarrow figgin' morning a month earlier than I was originally schedualed. I don't have private insurance, state or federal relief and no longer have the ready cash I had when I was working and married.
Last year at this time I was about 20 feet from the Canadian border, not to get health care, but just to visit some wonderful old friends in B.C.. I fooze my butt off outside the BC guard house untilthe sun came up and the buses would start rolling back to Seattle (and to my train back to LA) for two reasons - one I can't mention - but it had something directly related to the
clamp-down in this rediculous "war on terror" on North American soil!!!
I got my free insurance through LA Healthways, a small, but difficult progam to get into - aimed at we who fall through the cracks, so to speak. But it's not funded well enough to cover the whole country... barely a small portion of LA is about all.
So now they want me to get no more than 4 hours sleep... no coffee... no meds (no problem, but... dang... I'm a post-cancer treatment gimp with all kind s of daily aches and pains... still shaking off PTS after being in the cross-fire of a crime... even the doc recommended on paper something I can't take because two members of my family will kick ass and one has me set up for black mail "on principal" because i'm "high profile" My "secrect life" (for lack of a better term is:
http://www.midtownnoho.org/user/24?referrer=board
Notice the grey hair? My friends and I all clock in at 49 to 53 years old and I just rapidly aged before everyones eyes.
The clip I posted in The Lounge of the Cherry Bluestorms... they all look like
The X-Changer because they live on food, water and SPIRITUALTY. To me, that is the great Canadian lesson (and Aussie lesson... and Other Places lesson the USA can learn. It has worked in spiritul enclaves on the coasts and places in between, but we still have much work to do.
Ok, yes, I have a crush on The X-Changer (I'm a-sexual - not by choice and in a tight platonic relationship with my ex-ex still - by choice... so no worries).
Now I'm less than 24 hours away from the county HUANTED hospital and it seems they want me to duplicate the mental state I was in so they can pin-point the "problem." The place was built right next to a hospital that was completely distroyed by the 1971 earthquake... burrying alive 40 or so doctors, nurses and patients... a second hospital never should have been built there. It should be Veteran's Hospital Memorial Park with flowers planted in a circle.
When I had my temporal lobe siezure... then NDE... what I saw is for another thread.... heavy stuff. My haert races at the thought of going back, but that's what I should do... chin up.
Like my firend's song goes, I must "brave the atmosphere... or the wave will pull me under.."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhGnV2wm3PQ
Wish me luck,
Paul