[AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior

[michelemason]

When I researched Ireland health care, I found one could buy private 
care for $20.00 mo. mm

On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:50 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> It is my understanding that to get the so-called "free" drugs, one 
> pretty much has to be a "citizen".  Otherwise...not qualified.  If one 
> has money, then one can always get "private" care, just like here, in 
> all the Brit Commonwealth countries I believe.  If one is dependant on 
> the public health plan (whatever it is called) one had better have a 
> healthy heart and/or a high tolerance for pain and suffering.  18 
> months is a long time to wait for an emergency appendectomy. Ahhh, I 
> know, ranting again.
>
> What good are "free" drugs if the local "doctor" is consulting chicken 
> spleens or reading charts which tell them which banana is active in 
> which cabbage patch for that date.  Or similar.
>
> We lost two friends to undiagnosed or unrecognized cancer who moved to 
> and lived in beautiful San Miguel, so my opinion of Mexican medical 
> diagnostic skills are rather on a par with my opinion of Barbara 
> Bush's sensitivity to social problems.
>
> France and Germany have good doctors and great facilities as do most 
> Scandanavian countries.  Some of the worlds' best "eye doctors" work 
> in Portugal for reasons entirely beyond my ken.
>
> wgJ
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
> Cc: "michelemason" <coltrane at ev1.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 9:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
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>> Remember dear, it has to be where meds are free, or nearly.  mm
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>> On Sep 28, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:
>>
>>> big prize for best recommendation of where to move to never
>>> having been there onself.
>>>
>>> I met a Kiwi once who swore he would never go back to NZ.
>>>
>>> I recommend Nova Scotia & San Diego
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <blacky at cbn.net.id>
>>> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
>>> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 8:59 PM
>>> Subject: [AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior
>>>
>>>
>>>> Had to put my two cents' worth in.
>>>>
>>>>> From everything I've heard New Zealand is incomparable for the 
>>>>> type of
>>>> civilized, comfortable, environmentally-stable refuge you are 
>>>> talking
>>>> about.
>>>>
>>>> Two grand islands with a total population of around three million, a
>>>> reasonably healthy if sluggish economy, and a welcoming people.
>>>>
>>>> Square as Jehovah's Witlesses from what I am told but I have 
>>>> enjoyed my
>>>> contacts with Kiwis (Ozzies not so much).
>>>>
>>>> Of course I've never been there (snicker). That would have spoilt 
>>>> my power
>>>> of recommendation.
>>>>
>>>> Seriously though... Just don't go expecting to try to do business 
>>>> or make
>>>> money (the bane of energetic ambitious Canadian immigrants as 
>>>> well...)
>>>>
>>>> BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>>>>
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