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The Denver Post talks with a Taiwanese immigrant who is aghast at the expense and inefficiency of the US health insurance industry. A nugget:
But he’s not going to get 24 times better health care, which he has discovered as well. “One day my daughter got sick. We sent her to hospital, and imagined this society has good hospitals and advanced technologies that exist to serve people. We waited from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. in emergency room. With this speed of service, I began to question my understanding of the word ’emergency.’?” He says that he looked it up, just to verify that “emergency” is the word for something that requires immediate action.
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