From: Tony Williams 

Adam wrote:
>
> A) ID determines where you are taken. No health card & it's the cheapest
> hospital & not the closest.
>
> B) Often if with Blue cross or whoever then you may end up being taken
> to that hospital even if it is 50 miles away.
>
> C) Once on the ambulance the job of the crew is in part to rifle through
> your possessions looking for health cards or credit cards.
>
> D) Most of even the higher paid US ppl I am in contact with are
> basically fearfull of disease & injury in a way that most europeans I
> deal with are not.

(C) matches my personal experience closely enough. I had insurance so I
can't vouch for the rest.

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Tony

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