Health Care
We have found the answer to the health care debate. Move to China.
Almost time for the big 1st Grade so Rachel went in for her physical today. We were a little shocked when we heard the price. FIVE TIMES the price of a regular trip to the doctor. Can you believe it? 100 Yuan!! That's roughly fourteen dollars and seventy cents. A regular visit is 20 ($2.95). That's not a copay, that's the fee. So there's your answer to the ongoing, never ending, absolutely painful, whining, complaining, campaigning and heated arguments over options that are public, private and everything in between. The money you would save on premiums, copays, tax increases and fuel to and from the doctors office would pay for your one way ticket to China in no time.
We are really thankful to have a large Chinese hospital close to our home that includes an international clinic with English speaking nurses and doctors. The standard is different and sometimes the cultural challenges require and extra dose of patience but we generally feel . . . pretty ok about the diagnosis and the treatment. There is also a great doctor at the Korean clinic. He doesn't speak English but he draws brilliant pictures that describe the problem and the solution quite well.
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Born to be a mother Testing the eyes in the back of Rachel's head. Ok there's a mirror on the opposite wall but it makes a funny picture. |
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Judah has been diagnosed with mild asthma and has had bronchitis four times since we returned to China in February. Breathing treatments seem to help a little bit but Judah's not so crazy about them. |
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