Here's my new topic. Please if you don't have something positive to contribute to this topic, please do not post....
Costa Rica has changed my life. I can afford a lifestyle i could not in the US. I can afford "wellness care" that I could not have afforded in the states, I have had a colonoscopy, an endoscopy, a bone density scan, an ultrasound of my organs, a stress test, an EKG, blood and urinalysis that I would never have been able to afford in the US. I did not take any of these tests because I was sick in any way. I took them to verifty that I am well. The colonoscopy in the US was going to cost me nearly $3000. I had all these tests done without the aid of any insurance and paid $1100 total. I have also been able to afford the dental care I had been putting off for years in the US. I have had mulitple crowns, root canals, a bone graft and dental surgery and to date have spent less than $2000 for all of it. The last crown and root canal I'd had in the US cost me over $2000 just for one.
I have also had the opportunity to be involved in a volunteer capacity. My wife and I worked with the SPCA in the US and with an organzation devoted to providing low cost and no cost healthcare for women. I have found equally meaningful opportunities to "help out" others less fortunate than we are in Costa Rica. No country is perfect but I don't know of any other that I would prefer to be involved with.
Costa Rica has changed my life. I can afford a lifestyle i could not in the US. I can afford "wellness care" that I could not have afforded in the states, I have had a colonoscopy, an endoscopy, a bone density scan, an ultrasound of my organs, a stress test, an EKG, blood and urinalysis that I would never have been able to afford in the US. I did not take any of these tests because I was sick in any way. I took them to verifty that I am well. The colonoscopy in the US was going to cost me nearly $3000. I had all these tests done without the aid of any insurance and paid $1100 total. I have also been able to afford the dental care I had been putting off for years in the US. I have had mulitple crowns, root canals, a bone graft and dental surgery and to date have spent less than $2000 for all of it. The last crown and root canal I'd had in the US cost me over $2000 just for one.
I have also had the opportunity to be involved in a volunteer capacity. My wife and I worked with the SPCA in the US and with an organzation devoted to providing low cost and no cost healthcare for women. I have found equally meaningful opportunities to "help out" others less fortunate than we are in Costa Rica. No country is perfect but I don't know of any other that I would prefer to be involved with.
