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CLOSE TO THREE YEARS AGO I MET A REAL NICE MAN IN A DISABLED CHAT ROOM , WE BEEN GREAT FRIENDS AND KEEP IN TOUCH , ABOUT 4 MONTHS AGO HE STOP IN ON YAHOO TO SAY HELLO AND I WAS LIKE HEY HOW ARE YOU , HIS RELPY WAS JET LAGGED , HE TRAVELS ALOT FOR THE COMPANY HE OWNES SO I WAS LIKE OK  WHERE ARE YOU NOW ? THE USA ! RIGHTTTTTTTTT   WELL I WAS SPEECHLESS HE SHOCKED ME FOR SURE . HE CALLED AND HOW WONDERFUL TO HEAR A VOICE OF SOMEONE YOU BEEN TYPING TO FOR LONG LONG TIME !  HE IS FROM SOUTH AFRICA ......AWSOME ACCENT . WE DID FINE AS LONG AS HE SPOKE SLOWLY , WHEN HE GOT EXCITED I GOT LOST A BIT LOL ...........I ASKED HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT ABOUT THE USA .....DID HE LIKE THE FOOD ? THE PEOPLE ? ..................ONE THING THAT  IMPRESSED HIM THE MOST WAS THE COST OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES , HE FOUND THEM DIRT ' CHEAP ' YES CHEAP ! HE EVEN SHIPPED SOME HOME AND THE SECOND THING WAS THE ACCESIBILTY ! HE WAS SO THROWN BY THE FACT THAT IN A CHAIR YOU CAN GO INTO ANY STORE OR RESTAURANT , USE PUBLIC TRANSPORATION ....... JUST TO GO OUT AND SEE CUT CRUBS BLEW HIS MIND ! WE ARE SO LUCKY AND YET AT TIMES WE STILL COMPLAIN !  THANK YOU FOR THE ' ADA' ~~~ EVERY TIME I ASKED ABOUT WHAT HE LIKED HE ALWAYS WENT BACK TO THE ACCESSIBILTY ! WE SHOUD BE GRATEFUL ! P.S HE WAS THRILLED WITH THE PRICES HERE HE GOT A NEW CHAIR !!!!!!                          RAINEY XO    

How fun for you Rainey.......to talk to someone you met in another part of the world.......thru.....chat ! And to hear his thoughts and comments about our contry........and it's products.........and yes.........sometimes it helps to see things through others eyes.......especially on the appreciation level.........it helps to get an outside perspective...............I think maybe we are a little spoiled........so lets hear it for all those people who have fought for ADA rights........and were heard until something was done ! Bravo !!........Glad you enjoyed a conversation with an old friend !.............Peace and love.......Norma

Rainey, I see us more as good self advocates rather than being spoiled.  It was not a piece of cake to get the ADA into place.  Even now, enforcement is spotty at best, but we're still pushing.

 

I have not compared our DME prices with another country's so I can'at speak to the issue.  I'm glad that he found our prices a bargain and spent his monaey in the USA.  I do think our medicine prices are artificially high and applaud WalMart and others for their efforts to bring costs down. 

 

All in all, regardless what Michael Moore says, I will take our health care systems over Cuba's any day.  As far as I know he does not go there for his healath care.   

  WAZA YOU ARE RIGHT SPOILED WAS A POOR CHOICE OF WORDING AND I DID CHANGE THE TITLE OF THE POST ! I DO KNOW HOW HARD WE ALL FOUGHT FOR THE ADA , I WAS THE ADA COORDINATOR IN THE TOWN I LIVE FOR SIX YEARS !  JUST THAT WHEN I ENTER THE WORLD 99 % OF THE TIME A RAMP IS THERE !  FOR THAT I AM THANKFUL                RAINEY  XO   R  

 Well, all I can say I get my wheelchairs for absolutely free.

Well not really of course, because I have to pay into my health insurance. But that is a very reasonable ammount of money, and it buys it all. No doctor will come to me and say "We can't make an MRI, because your insurance doesn't cover that." 

 

Yeah the mom whose hubby walked out on her so now she is working two part time jobs to support the kids......no health insurance cause shes part time and she has to take the sick baby to an emergency room because the clinic wont see the baby anymore because she has a back bill

 

sure is lucky..........there are less uninsured Americans because legislators have begun to address the issue of uninsured children

 

but what happens to the person who has a disabling medical condition and has been turned down when they applied for SSDI and are appealing ..... no doctor will see them because they have no money for health care so how to keep documenting their medical problems for the appeal and they cant work or can only work part time so cant pay rent and end up on the street

 

I think we saw a thread here in the forum to that effect so

 

Yeah we are so lucky.........in some ways perhaps but we have a long way to go as a nation when it comes to health care 

 

 

 Yeah we are spoiled for sure we have a cap lock key to make sure our message is always first and always noticed. Not spoiled my youngest sister the baby factory with some 5 kids underage whos hubby was busted by the FBI for child porn producing and selling and having her kids abused unknowing from her over his on-line friends so sweet they were it makes me want to puke. At any rate she has no resources never worked a day her thing was having babies lots of them and hubby made sire was his new production material.

So talk about spoil yeah on-line I can invent I am a saint and be the most sick pseron on the planet. Helthcare issues and all the catch 22 rules of even being disabled in most cases I am treated far better outside the USA then inside and have not found my abilities to hamper my movements. 

I do not invent stuff to solve it as some I see whats there and maybe want to try and fix it.

Daisies:

 Well, all I can say I get my wheelchairs for absolutely free.

Well not really of course, because I have to pay into my health insurance. But that is a very reasonable ammount of money, and it buys it all. No doctor will come to me and say "We can't make an MRI, because your insurance doesn't cover that." 

 

 

 

P.S: Here in Germany.