RUSH: Well, except I cannot go to Costa Rica because the plan was to be part of an insurance policy that was going to set up operations down there, but the insurance company says they're going to be out of business in three years because of Obamacare and they won't be able to do it. So I'm back looking to looking at New Zealand.
12 Must Knows about Health Care for Migrants In New Zealand
How do I pay for my healthcare in New Zealand? New Zealand's healthcare system is funded mainly through general taxation. Treatments are usually free or subsidised. Medical treatment is generally very good. Private healthcare is also available.
Will I be eligible for publicly funded healthcare? Yes, provided you are a New Zealand Citizen or you are ordinarily resident in New Zealand.
Public Health Care - Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS)
Costa Rica’s public health insurance system, commonly known as the Caja, is available country-wide to all citizens and legal residents. There are ten major public hospitals – four in San Jose, including the Children’s Hospital – affiliated with the Caja. For non-emergencies and everyday medical care, small clinics, known as EBAIS (pronounced ay-vy-ice), are located in almost every community.
The cost to affiliate with CCSS is approximately 10 to 11.5% of your income; alternatively, residents may become members via ARCR, which provides a streamlined and simple joining process. Please note that for those under age 55, Caja payments include a mandatory pension payment, which will be disbursed beginning at age 65. Keep in mind that the Caja’s low cost and high quality attract many to its hospitals and clinics, and wait times are long for anything from a routine checkup to an important surgical procedure.
Private Insurance
Note: Before the 2008 ratification of CAFTA (the Central American Free Trade Agreement), Costa Rica operated under a government-owned monopoly insurance system. In 2009, international insurance providers began to offer health insurance within Costa Rica.
Costa Rica’s private hospitals and clinics offer high-quality medical care at a tiny fraction of its U.S. equivalent cost. In fact, due to Costa Rica’s beautiful surroundings, medical reputation and very lost costs, the country is rapidly becoming a prime destination for medical tourism.
As of 2009, private insurance is available through INS, the government-owned insurance monopoly. Most plans cover dental work, optometry, and cosmetic surgery in the case of an accident, and neither pre-existing conditions nor annual check-ups are included. Prescription drugs, certain medical exams, sick visits and hospitalization are covered at 70% cost, and surgeon and aesthetician costs are covered at full cost. Currently, private medical insurance costs about $50-$100/month per person, depending on age, gender and other factors.
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So this is how its going to be for a while? Obama and Nancy Pelosi know whats best for everyone and push through what they believe is right? So now everything Obama touches next is best for us, and hes going to make everything better because he is for the common citizen and fighting for me against the status quo?
Give me a freakin break, this guy is no super hero...this guy is no different than anyone else. This is Chicago style politics and it sucks.
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yeah, but this is how the GOP chose to make it.
they had a 40 vote block in the Senate that could have made the bill very different, instead they chose not to participate and allow the Dems to slice it up between themselves.
40 votes in the senate is alot of power.
they say they all agree that something needs to be done, but they keep saying tort reform, it makes me want to scream every time i hear some person claiming to support the constitution bring up tort reform. the right sue somebody, anybody, is garanteed in the bill of rights.
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this may be the biggest in awhile, but the GOP owned the whole enchilada just four years ago and lost it.... they'll get it back eventually (not this fall) and the whole process will start over...
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When the farmers in other countries are ruined by unfair or subsidized competition, Cargill rushes in and grabs their land and businesses until it dominates the agricultural base of that country ... as soon as Cargill ascends to become the supreme food power in that country ... discretely hiding behind the impotent local throne, it shows, and uses, its fangs and claws. Cargill enslaves children and works them 16 hours a day ... as it did in Mali and Ivory Coast. Cargill hires death squads to murder and torture striking workers as it did in Colombia.
[We can show that Colombian death squads attacked striking workers on Cargill's plantations in Colombia. Cargill however claims that the labor strike and the death squad attacks were a coincidence. Neither Cargill nor the death squads have so far confess that an agreement existed between them, as one similarly situated US banana company in Colombia has done.]
In Venezuela, Cargill never reached this final stage of involuntary servitude and death squad capitalism ... but it was getting there until the Revolution blocked it!
The fundamental principle that underlies Cargill's operations is to sell less food at higher prices for bigger profits. So, around 2006, Cargill tricked the US regime into giving fabulous subsidies to US farmers to transfer almost a third of the US corn crop from human consumption to fuel production. Corn and other food prices quickly shot up along with Cargill's profits ... and, the amount of world famine and malnutrition shot up too ... as a consequence, millions more people starved and starving to death, but Cargill was happy, even delighted, by ballooning famine around the world before the full force of the capitalist crisis hit.
Cargill's operations in South America are mainly in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
A truck driver(non Cargill employee) was killed after a salt bin broke and fell on his cab, crushing him. Another worker on a platform fell to the ground with injuries.
quote:Originally posted by CashCowMoo: So this is how its going to be for a while? Obama and Nancy Pelosi know whats best for everyone and push through what they believe is right?
As apposed to Bush's mandate from heaven and the Gingrich/Livingston/Hastert years?
Your party lost Cow. Deal with it. It happens.
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