-=> Rob Mccart wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

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

You'd think so but evidently not.

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

I've heard Singapore is a very safe place to live and visit.  You get what you
payt for, I guess.

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

In those cases, yes, I agree that an ER visit is needed.  I did not become so
sickly until after my military service...

-- Sean

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