My migration from Wordpress to Substack was not as smooth as one could hope for.
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Feri says:
2012-04-17 at 5:53 pm
dear bro!
A bit long, some paragraphs I have skipped, but very good. I am getting more and more proud of our curse-rained Hungarian healthcare system here in little sad West-Balkan. I have never had such bad experience. And I always get the bill of costs.
Keep it going!
Feri
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Lori says:
2012-04-25 at 9:33 am
I am with you on this 1000%.
Lori
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Eva says:
2012-05-01 at 2:26 am
In early December, on a Saturday afternoon, Agnes, her boyfriend and I arrived to the Sharp Hospital’s emergency room in La Mesa, CA. It was around 5:00 PM. For about a half hour we waited in the waiting room. The usual scene: lots of people, crying babies, a few homeless, etc. Then Agnes went through the triage (blood pressure + temperature), and we were told to continue waiting in the hallway behind Triage. There were other people there already: a young woman in a wheelchair, who was throwing up on the floor ne#t to her (the letter between Z and C does not work on my keyboard), a man in a chair who was accompanied by a policeman and wore handcuffs, an old woman on a stretcher, along with an ambulance medic, and an old man in an other wheelchair. There were two chairs for the three of us. We waited there for many hours. Then a chair became available in the emergency room, so we were told to move over there. After an unbelievably long time, a bed became available, so Agnes was laid down there. I do not remember how long we waited before she was seen by a doctor. Within a few minutes the doctor decided that she needs to be admitted. All we had to do now is to wait for an empty bed on the floor. It was 1:00 PM the ne#t day when Agnes actually arrived to her room on the floor.
Sharp Grossmont Hospital is a private hospital. Agnes has private insurance, for which she pays a few dollars less than $600 a month. Millions of people have no medical insurance, and their only choice is to go to the emergency room for any need they have. By law, emergency rooms cannot turn anybody away. But hospitals are in the business of making money. Therefore, people who have medical insurance subsidize the medical cost of people who do not have it. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed, and the quality of care is just about as lousy as it was in the good old Hungarian communist days. As far as I am concerned, I much rather have a single payer health care system. Globalization reached the point of near equilibrium: the standard of living went down where it used to be high, and it went up where it used to be low.
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zorkthehun says:
2012-05-28 at 9:36 pm
Just today, I got a fundraising letter from the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Motto:
The distance between where we are and where we ('could' crossed out, replaced with cursive 'will') be is a question of vision.……
Dear Mr. Hun,
Every once in a while, someone at the hospital goes above and beyond the call of duty – for you or for someone you love – in the hopes of making your day brighter, your recovery easier, your stay more comfortable.
Whether it’s the receptionist who greeted you with a smile, the nurse who stood by you during your entire stay, the surgeon who saved your life, or the orderly who walked alongside you in the hall…..
Should I reply? Better yet, should I explain?
Don’t you find it amazing how in this world of single payer health care bliss hospitals still need our donations? That after taking our money by force they still need to appeal to our good will because they can’t manage what they took?
My migration from Wordpress to Substack was not as smooth as one could hope for.
Here are the non-migrated comments on this post:
Feri says:
2012-04-17 at 5:53 pm
dear bro!
A bit long, some paragraphs I have skipped, but very good. I am getting more and more proud of our curse-rained Hungarian healthcare system here in little sad West-Balkan. I have never had such bad experience. And I always get the bill of costs.
Keep it going!
Feri
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Lori says:
2012-04-25 at 9:33 am
I am with you on this 1000%.
Lori
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Eva says:
2012-05-01 at 2:26 am
In early December, on a Saturday afternoon, Agnes, her boyfriend and I arrived to the Sharp Hospital’s emergency room in La Mesa, CA. It was around 5:00 PM. For about a half hour we waited in the waiting room. The usual scene: lots of people, crying babies, a few homeless, etc. Then Agnes went through the triage (blood pressure + temperature), and we were told to continue waiting in the hallway behind Triage. There were other people there already: a young woman in a wheelchair, who was throwing up on the floor ne#t to her (the letter between Z and C does not work on my keyboard), a man in a chair who was accompanied by a policeman and wore handcuffs, an old woman on a stretcher, along with an ambulance medic, and an old man in an other wheelchair. There were two chairs for the three of us. We waited there for many hours. Then a chair became available in the emergency room, so we were told to move over there. After an unbelievably long time, a bed became available, so Agnes was laid down there. I do not remember how long we waited before she was seen by a doctor. Within a few minutes the doctor decided that she needs to be admitted. All we had to do now is to wait for an empty bed on the floor. It was 1:00 PM the ne#t day when Agnes actually arrived to her room on the floor.
Sharp Grossmont Hospital is a private hospital. Agnes has private insurance, for which she pays a few dollars less than $600 a month. Millions of people have no medical insurance, and their only choice is to go to the emergency room for any need they have. By law, emergency rooms cannot turn anybody away. But hospitals are in the business of making money. Therefore, people who have medical insurance subsidize the medical cost of people who do not have it. Emergency rooms are overwhelmed, and the quality of care is just about as lousy as it was in the good old Hungarian communist days. As far as I am concerned, I much rather have a single payer health care system. Globalization reached the point of near equilibrium: the standard of living went down where it used to be high, and it went up where it used to be low.
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zorkthehun says:
2012-05-28 at 9:36 pm
Just today, I got a fundraising letter from the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Motto:
The distance between where we are and where we ('could' crossed out, replaced with cursive 'will') be is a question of vision.……
Dear Mr. Hun,
Every once in a while, someone at the hospital goes above and beyond the call of duty – for you or for someone you love – in the hopes of making your day brighter, your recovery easier, your stay more comfortable.
Whether it’s the receptionist who greeted you with a smile, the nurse who stood by you during your entire stay, the surgeon who saved your life, or the orderly who walked alongside you in the hall…..
Should I reply? Better yet, should I explain?
Don’t you find it amazing how in this world of single payer health care bliss hospitals still need our donations? That after taking our money by force they still need to appeal to our good will because they can’t manage what they took?