[AGL] Where to live? Australia Junior

[Wayne Johnson]

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


> Remember dear, it has to be where meds are free, or nearly.  mm
>
> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>