Panis et Circenses

[dotinthesky]

[Poll #1445374]

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Edit: If you are British, please consider "Health Care" as including the National Health Service (NHS). Basically, what I meant by it was an umbrella definition for some kind of system (whether private or not) that offers you health care.

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[olamina.livejournal.com]

If I were America, I would start from zero. There were many times during my life in New York where I was without coverage. The worst was when I came back from a trip to Ghana and had a bad case of malaria such that my boyfriend at the time rushed me to the emergency room (of course the treatment for malaria made me feel even worse, but that's another story...). Anyway, through a bit of trickery and a whole lot of paperwork I was able to get my hospital fees covered by Medicaid (I was, pretty much, broke) and I even got on the dole but was too afraid to use the food stamp credit card that they sent me.