Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
You’d be hard pressed to find someone who wasn’t aware of the debate in America over our broken healthcare system (I think most people agree that it could be better, even if we can’t agree on how to fix it), but the fact remains that America is far behind the rest of the civilized world when it comes to how we view and handle healthcare for all citizens.
Most other first world countries offer government-funded universal healthcare – and that is also true in Taiwan, where one Kevin Bozeat has been living as an ex-pat. But unfortunately, he didn’t qualify for their healthcare and had no American health insurance, either, when he found himself super sick and in need of a trip to the emergency room.
He sucked it up and let his roommate call him a taxi, figuring he’d work out the payment when it came due (the way most of us regular people do here in the States).
Here’s what happened.
tl;dr: His experience…
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