Weird for me to have a post about his subject, isn’t it? It’s just that there is so much news about this stuff on the internet, even some on Thai news because Obama is involved and he is sort of popular in Thailand, maybe more popular than in America (and I don’t understand why).
I don’t live there anymore, but when I did I had “insurance” that let me go to the doctor and dentist and spend very little money. You know, I understand what insurance is, which is why I call what I had in America “insurance” in quotes. I just laughed about it every time I saw the doctor. It seemed so funny to me that most Americans think insurance is when someone else pays for your health care. Honestly, I don’t really know who was paying for mine, but it was great!
Insurance is something that helps you when you have an unexpected big expense. It is not when you have a cold, or a checkup, or a baby, because those things are expected or planned. So it seems so weird to me that Americans think that’s what insurance is and they are all going crazy trying figure out who and how is paying for all that “free” health care. I remember one person compared it to auto insurance – would you expect your auto insurance to pay for your oil change, car wash or new paint job?
The other thing is the insurance companies – seems like everybody hates them. People write hate posts about insurance companies like Anthem and they even plan to sue them for raising prices. What the…? How can you sue a for-profit company for raising its prices? Can I sue Mercedes and get a new Benz a lot cheaper?
I know, I’m going to get people who say Thailand is so behind and underdeveloped while America is so advanced. Well, I am not looking forward to the day when my country is as “advanced” as America, especially since that apparently means that you rank 37th in quality while spending the most.
Besides, our nurses are so much cuter than the nurses in America. See, this post is on topic, hehe.
Tags: sexy nurse, Thai Culture
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March 2nd, 2010 at 8:02 pm
“Besides, our nurses are so much cuter than the nurses in America.” I don’t know how I feel about the rest of your post, but you sure got that right!
I’ve been an advocate for a major overhaul of the US health care system since before Bill Clinton’s election. But you’re right, the US population just doesn’t seem to realize that while our costs are the highest, the quality isn’t.
Nicely done theme.
March 5th, 2010 at 10:10 am
I am feeling the need for medical care.
March 5th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Where does it hurt?
March 5th, 2010 at 11:31 am
I would pay taxes, in order to guarantee pretty nurses like those above
March 9th, 2010 at 8:58 am
I can’t think of any other country in the world where a president who tries to make sure everyone can get health insurance ends up being so demonized that people go out in the streets waving signs of him wearing a Hitler mustache. You were able to get health care reform in Thailand. I don’t know why it’s so impossible here in the US.
Thanks for posting these pics. They help me get my mind off of how screwed up my country is.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:05 am
By health care reform in my country do you mean the 30 baht scheme. I’m pretty sure you don’t want that kind of health care reform in your country. It is horrid.
March 10th, 2010 at 9:41 am
Yes, I’m talking about the 30 baht scheme but I honestly don’t know much about it. I just know that Thailand passed health care reform but we can’t. The 30 baht scheme may be horrid but I wonder if it is worse than no reform at all. I’ve heard that it helps poor people get health care who couldn’t afford it otherwise. Anyway, I know that what Obama has proposed is definitely better than no reform at all.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:05 am
Yes, now everybody can go to the doctor for 30 baht. When they started the plan they advertised “30 baht for every ailment” but now even poor people call it “Aspirin for every ailment”. The public hospitals are overwhelmed and the care is terrible. They give you an aspirin and send you home to die. We hear it on the news every day. Now the only place to get good health care is at private hospitals.
So all that really happened is that good health care became less available. It used to be that public hospitals were pretty good and middle class people would use them but poor people could not afford them. Now they are terrible and poor people get health care, sort of, while middle class people have fled to private hospitals.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Bad enough that umemployment is still at its steady pace. Its not rising by too much but its definitely rising.
One needs a job to have medicare deductions and thus having insurance. The reform proposed by President Obama only temporarily helped out the poor.
March 13th, 2010 at 10:34 am
Btw, I need a nurse…. bad.