Chris,
Your post really makes me reconsider my generally negative attitude to
living here in the UK. It really could be worse...
Hope something turns up, god knows what..... shame you can't make a
living out of your photography....... :-(
Regards - Martyn Smoothy
Chris Crawford wrote:
> Like Doug said in his post a little bit ago, the treatment for your ear
> infection would cost you about $800 here in the USA if you were uninsured
> and that is if they would even treat you at all. A few yrs ago I had a
> kidney stone that wouldn't pass through and the pain was unbearable. My
> doctor sent me to a local hospital for a CAT Scan to see where the stone was
> lodged. It cost $3000 for the 5 minutes of work from a hospital technician.
> At the time I had no income at all. I was as poor as you can be, living on
> handouts from friends and family, and the hospital told me I didn't qualify
> for the government's indigent program because I was a single man. The
> hospital hounded me for 2 years with phone calls to my parents house several
> times a day and letters threatening to sue me because I did not pay it. I
> had no way to, and my family couldn't afford it either. I finally went to
> New Mexico because a friend there offered me a place to live, and my father
> hired a lawyer to send the collection agency a letter stating that I had
> dissapeared and they didn't know where I was and that it was my father's
> phone they were calling and since he owed them nothing they had no right to
> call it. They stopped after that. I'll never pay it, even if I suddenly came
> into wealth. I still earn less than $500 a month and cannot find a job...my
> income is from selling my photos on my website. Like I said, if I became
> rich I'd still refuse to pay, it is a moral issue to me....health care is a
> basic human right.
>
> What's sad is that a man with a university degree is unemployable here. I
> have a fine art degree, and I found out after graduating that no one, not
> even McDonald's will hire such people here in Indiana. I have now been
> unemployed for 9 years and no business will hire someone who has been out of
> work that long.
>
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