Well duh. Workers in other countries aren't obliged by liberal Democrat judges to provide translators for foreigners.
Why should or would they speak English? To them it's an enemy language. They're righteous about the "language of Cervantes", unlike the deluded and dissolute self-hating liberals of America who demand that we give up our language and our culture to a foreign invasion.
Ain't happening in Mexico, where they still act like a nation.
Looking forward to this story being covered in the MSM.
Still waiting....
Cue the sound of crickets.
In the UK, you can read of patient, especially seniors, needing the same type of family care. Some seniors have been forced to drink water from flower vases , some even dying of neglect and dehydration. Long Live National Health Care! (Pun intended)
When I was in the Mexican Baja I asked my host why there was a crowd in front of the building across the street. He said, “That’s the hospital. The crowd is out there waiting for medical care. During the summer when the temperatures regularly hit 120 degrees the hospital sends out a gurney every hour to collect the dead.”
There are two hospital systems, both free. There’s the one for the people, the one I just commented on, and the one for the elites. That one is modern looking and has no waiting lines. But the care is circa 1950. An in-office procedure here would be a life-threatening operation there…but it’s free.
This is true in most 3rd world countries.
If you get sick, the last place you should go is to the hospital.
I grew up and still live about 140 miles from Mexico. During my childhood and and young adulthood, Mexico was like a playground, shopping center, place to get drunk (and other things) and just fun in general. The place began to change in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. It’s been 35 years since I set foot over there, and probably another 2,000 or more before I do so again.
Anyone that goes to that pest hole does so at their own peril. (And they WILL be at great peril I might add!)
Layed there for 5 weeks while family members rushed to his bedside.
anyways, my wife has to get a procedure done. the doc had to give her a $300 shot???? to get things under control, stabilize so he could surgerize. but unless she agreed to have him do the procedure he wouldn’t treat her initially. he told her the other doc she had seen had given her the wrong medication, and he assured her he had talked the the hospital and said they would do a payment plan for use of the facility after his full fee was paid up front of course. but we all know that is a lie cause that hospital doesn’t do payment plans. well, they do in a way, they immediately send your bill to a collections agency. but hey she is ok for now, and she had only lost 25% of her blood before the shot.
so the plan is to shoot the doctors before the lawyers so the docs can’t be around to fix the lawyers...I love the smell of CWII in the morning...
Obamacares not a goddamned bit just like all the rest of congress and the scotus.
Always buy travel insurance with medical evacuation as one of its features. The trouble is that when ObamaCare kicks in, we will be evacuated to a “free” US government run medical facility.
This was mid-1960s.
My Mom and step-dad were weekending in Mexico with friends. They were playing on the beach when the dune buggy they were driving rolled over and caught fire.
There had been two friends in the dune buggy, one wearing his seat belt, one not. The one not wearing a belt had his neck broken by the roll bar at roll-over and was dead. The one wearing his belt was hanging upside down in the burning vehicle.
Step-dad (who was CHP), went into the fire and cut the seat belt, pulling the guy to safety. The guys burns were on his buttocks and legs, step-dad’s were on his hands and face.
Both taken to Mexican hospital. My Mom watched them doing essentially nothing for one day, only washed his burned skin and laid a bandage over them. They were, needless to say, out of their heads from dehydration alone.
She tried talking to the staff who “no habla’d” her about to death. She walked down the hall until she saw somebodies wheelchair, which she took. Somehow (he outweighed her by about 80 lbs) rolled step-dad into the chair and loaded him into their truck.
Drove him up to San Diego and took him to the first hospital she saw. By the time she got him there, his face was unrecognizable from the swollen blistered skin, his hands unusable.
He only stayed in the American hospital for about a week, and I remember him being off work for about a month. His burns were bad, but not REAL bad. If she’d left him in Mexico, doctors said he’d have been dead in another 24 hours.
He was presented an award by the State of California for this act of heroism. I often wondered if it was for saving the guy from the fire or surviving the Mexican hospital.
You’re right, it is a preview of Obamacare. Here’s the flip side:
We needed an emergency room in Mexico last Christmas, but the hospital was for paying patients only. It was spotless, there were English-speaking doctors available to translate, and a specialist was on call.
A hospital bed for one night, consult with a specialist, and the appropriate drug drip. Paid the bill on the way out the next day: One hundred US dollars. Oh, and they didn’t take insurance.
I’ve never paid a bill so cheerfully.
If we could get both the government and insurance companies out of the health care industry, prices would drop like a rock here in the U.S.
In both the UK and Australia 16 bed hospital wards are the norm...a standard of care that disappeared from US hospitals decades ago. Imagine a US without private or at least semi private rooms.
ObamaCare will lead to private hospitals who only accept paying members.