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The insurance company wasn't to blame, they immediately confirmed they would pay, it was the American money grabbing ideology of the hospital that wanted an assurance from the German embassy first before they started treatment which caused the delay.

I don't think one would legally be able to discriminate.

How would that work, get an unemployed salesman in NY with family and move him hundreds of miles out to the country to plant potatoes, get an undergraduate just finished studying to pick apples?

Who are sophisticated enough to appreciate ageless classical music instead of noise.

She gave him the verbal finger and he gave her a physical reply.

I bet the farmers aren't happy, they might have to pay a living wage to Americans, providing they can find anybody to do the work, will also increase the price of food but that would go hand in hand with Trumps tariff policies.

A lot of tattoos......whatever.

Infantile, that'll teach her not to do it again. The courts administer justice not revenge.

So the whole of society is somehow guilty as well now?

Just a bare foot kick to the head by the look of it, put the little raver off his moves. The perp didn't look drunk, quite a karate kick for someone inebriated.

An undignified end.

Where's Davy Crockett when you need him.

When my wife here contracted TB the treatment at the local hospital was having no effect. My wife is privately insured so we went to a private hospital in Surin, after looking at the medication she had been getting for the last two months he said we can do better than that, it's a new European medication but it's very expensive, he hesitated for a few seconds and then said, you needn't pay up front, I'll deal with the insurance myself. He gave us the glass ampules, about 20 and written instructions for our local doctor concerning the injections and off we went, it took 2 or three weeks and she was cured, I never did find out what it cost.

Yes, I rather think it's typical American behaviour, the card he showed them had a contact telephone number and he begged them to contact his insurance but he was told that rather than rely on a German insurance company they didn't know they wanted written confirmation of payment from the German embassy so in the event of difficulties getting payment the German state as a 'gold standard' would have to pay. God help us if the NHS has any business dealings with the Americans.

I have a German friend who took a holiday in the USA, while riding a push bike a woman opened her car door without looking and he somersaulted over the door and landed on his back squashing nerves in his vertebrae, he couldn't feel his legs and was taken to hospital. After the examination the surgeon told him he had to be operated on his spine immediately to stop nerve damage otherwise he may never walk again. He was insured through his German company and had an insurance card to show them but they wouldn't operate until they had confirmation through the German embassy that they would be reimbursed. It took 4 days, he had to telephone his company who contacted the insurance to explained what had to be done, this was on a Friday evening (German time) the insurance telexed the German embassy with assurance of payment who then telexed the hospital. The operation was only partially successful due to the long wait, his right leg is normal but he has no feeling in the left leg, he now walks with a strange limp, a floppy left leg. If they had operated immediately as they would have done anywhere in "socialist" Europe he would have been fine......the surgeon was most apologetic.

She'll arrive with severe migraine which will need a prison hospital for the short duration of her incarceration, her brother can arrange this.

That's a lot of devastating injuries, how ones life can change in the blink of an eye.

The word communism to describe certain countries always amuses me, there has never been a communist state, even the Soviet Union described itself as a Soviet Socialist Republic, it wasn't even socialist it was a dictatorship of oligarchs. Communism was a goal to achieve, first through socialism. There are Communist parties of course but they can only function as a party within the framework of the existing state. It's the same with Christianity, there is no such thing as a Christian country, only countries which have Christianity as its main religion but which behave in a secular, or as in the middle ages, dictatorial, repressive manner. One of the tenets of Communism is 'To each according to his needs, from each according to his abilities'. This sounds almost a Christian ideal, which is why, like Christianity, it can't function, mankind is too selfish and greedy. Jesus said, 'the poor will always be with us' and he was right, there will be the wealthy who control society and the mass who obey, no matter which form of government.

Xi isn't a communist, he is a dictator representing capitalism without restraints which is how China became the worlds factory producing everything from Trump's bibles to advanced EV's, while Sir Keir Starmer is just an inept fool with a knighthood.

Your solution is the greater crime of murder.

A little exaggerated for some light groping, she suffered no physical harm.

There's bound to be arguments when thieves divide the spoils.

Investigate what? That the sun rises in the morning?

Very convenient to be sure.

Rights for the working population were certainly fought for, starting with the Industrial revolution. Universal Healthcare is certainly not stupid! it should be a human right! My MIL just had cataract surgery done on both eyes for free, if you as a falang had it done I believe it costs between 80,000 and 100,000 Baht which my MIL certainly couldn't afford, it's made a huge difference to her life.