SD>According to a friend who is married to a Chinese woman and visits China
  >often, I'm told China actually has decent cheap healthcare (though he tells m
  >Japan's heatlhcare system is better still).

Interesting.. I wonder though, shouldn't China's be free for everyone
being communist? Cheap in China would mean 90% of the population
couldn't afford it I'd think..

SD>I knew of Taiwan's healthcare system being one of the best but I knew nothing
  >about Singapore's until I asked Grok and did a little research.  I know that
  >Singapore is one of the most expensive places in the world to live in but
  >there's tradeoffs for paying out the nose.

My next door neighbours, they actually bought their property from us,
have lived all over the world setting up for McDonalds to build
restaurants in places like Russia and Czech and the last foreign
country they lived in was Singapore. They liked it better than many
places but said the laws are super strict there, go to jail for spitting
on the sidewalk or littering or get flogged for it, sort of thing..

SD>Me?  I'm very grateful that I have the insurance I do else I'd have
  >been dead years ago (and I say that sincerely).

Yes, that can happen in a lot of places..

I'm a lot more healthy than typical for my age (most ages) but
I tend to avoid using our medical system, even though virtually
everything is paid for, because I don't want to have the system
waste money on minor things. The few times I've taken a drive to
the hospital it was because of a broken bone or at one time a cut
on my knee that would just not stop bleeding and it turned out
it was right to the bone and took 2 levels of stitches to close..

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