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LEch – that experience in AU sounds amazing – do you recall what you paid for that? and do normal people get that sorta treatment. I am not surprised your experience at LICH was bad. I am hoping my experience at NYP is a good one – it’s supposed to be the best -so we’ll see……
Jessi – haaaa, totally!
Dibs – ok gotcha!
There is a real risk that the dollar will lose its status as global reserve currency very soon.
Borrow as many US dollars as you can now and buy hard assets.
My doc’s office in Brooklyn made a deal with a local lab–the doc’s office collects $100 and that is the price for all lab work.
When I adopted my daughter in China I got her visa at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou. The Consulate employees were not very nice. The Chinese employees who did all the work were fine, but the American (State Dept.) employees acted like it was such a hardship to sign their names to the paperwork completed by the Chinese employees and check that the Chinese employees stamped the child’s Chinese passport with the right visa.
Of course we were treated much better than all the Chinese citizens waiting on endless lines for various visa interviews.
At the time, the Consulate was next to the White Swan Hotel on Shamian Island but it moved a few years ago.
Dave, can you ask Xing a question for me….. When I was in LA, my friend took us to LA’s Chinatown and we went into one of those “foot soaking” places which was just an illegal massage joint (meaning just not licensed)(no happy endings either). We paid like $15 for an HOUR massage where they basically massage most of your body and like you don’t undress or anything and it’s a full room of chairs with like a TV showing some Chinese soap opera and crap like that. It was awesome! I went with 3 friends and we had a good time (my friend and his Japanese gf go like twice a month). We were like the only non Chinese people there and the people working barely spoke a word of English but they were great. Massaged feet, shoulders, back, neck and head and didn’t cheap (did a full hour). Of course we tipped very well but it still came out cheap compared to this fifi spa places that charge like 100 an hour at least.
Do you or Xing know any places like that in Chinatown? There are a lot of them in LA’s Chinatown so I figured there might be a couple of NYC Chinatown as well.
You would have loved it. Lots of eye candy for you. Women were on the older side though :o(.
All of our masseuse were men. I needed nice strong massage (GOTD?).
Contrast that with our experience at LICH, where the nurses were absolutely awful and had a sneering attitute towards breastfeeding, where there were people handcuffed to their beds under watch of the police…..
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gave birth to 4 children here and I know they don’t pay anything.
i think im gonna start pulling this shit too, why not. fair is fair
*rob*
gem…you are not paying through your insurance for the uninsured but you are paying through the prices that the hospitals charge. the hospitals eat the cost of treating the uninsured but they price all others accordingly.
Of course all of this will be rectified (nh) with the Obama health Care Bill
ROTFLMMFAO
Oh God, we’re watching Gem become a Republican before our very eyes.
Arkady, I did pay full taxes in Oz but we were not entitled to participate in their public healthcare system so we were in the parallel private system.