Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:45 PM 10/15/04 -0230, Greg Locke wrote: >(Although, I was lucky enough to get treated for free in a US military >hospital in Florida (the stupid things you do on vacation) when I was >younger because my uncle was a army colonel.) > >So, last year when I smashed up my Achilles tendon on a job, I limped into a >hospital in Gander, NFLD, waited an hour, saw a lovely South African doctor >who x-rayed it, put it in a cast, gave me some Demerol and sent me on my >way. The direct cost to me? $0.000 NADA, ZIP, NOTHING. What would that have >cost me if I was travelling in the USA? A couple of thousand dollars? Greg This is the hardest lesson the dedicated statist must learn: someone paid for that treatment you received at a military facility in Florida: the anwer to yur query of "hunh? It didn't cost ME a thing!" is that us US taxpayers paid for the treatment for the injury. Similarly, your operation for the mashed Achilles tendon was paid for by the friendly taxpayers of the Dominion of Canada. (Though, in this case, I suspect that our Workers' Compensation Coveage would have been more generous than was your appaently bare-bones gummit insurance.) Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!