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This is Jeff J. Brown Radio Sinoland Seek Truth From Facts Foundation, the China Writers’ Group. What am I leaving out? Oh, the Bioweapon Truth Commission and China Tech News Flash. If you’re a fan of mine, you know that in October we moved from France to Taiwan. And again, we would not have been able to do it without a certain benefactor helping us get here. To live, to retire while I work, I still teach online to pay the bills. And it got down to where my partner, Evelyne was running out of a medication.
So, we went to a pharmacy and they said, well, we recommend that you go to the Christian Hospital here in Puli, because you have to have a prescription for that, which you would anywhere else. So we went to the Christian Hospital, and incredibly nice, they’ve got a beautiful, beautiful mural painting of the Last Supper behind all the nice ladies who are running the windows, where you pay or to show your card. That was the first thing we noticed every time, where’s your medical card?
Because everybody in Taiwan has a medical card. They have national health insurance here just like every other sophisticated country except the United States and probably a few outside of the West. But we said we don’t have it. We are still trying to get our resident permits. And so we’re paying cash. So we walk in and they immediately find us a doctor because we said she’s running out. And so instead of putting us off, Evelyne immediately got to see a doctor. And it took about 20 minutes.
Since we kind of cut in line, we had to wait about 20 minutes to get to see a doctor. But in France, you can’t even see one. Try to go see your general practitioner in France, it takes sometimes two or three months to even see a doctor in France now. And so, Evelyne had a little translator. I wanted her to do her translation. I mean, I helped out with the Chinese. And she told her story. It took about 20 minutes. It was a long consultation. And the guy was just super nice, just asking her all kinds of questions. Really caring and concerned.
And, so he gave her a prescription for 30 days. He said without your medical card, I can’t give you any more than 30 days. And so he filled it out and he gave us the paper, and we went and paid for it. In the United States, you have to declare bankruptcy because you have a sore throat, and we got to the window, and they said 552 New Taiwan Dollars (NTD). There it is right there, 552 NTD. Consultation 20 minutes, 30 days’ medication for 16 euros total.
The medication alone in France or the EU would have cost a euro and a half a day, 45 euros just for the medication in the West, and here the total is 16 euros. So he told her that obviously she was only able to get one month’s worth. And so she went back on February 18th, same doctor. This time now, she was registered. She now has a registration number, a patient number. Again, a good 20-minute consultation with the little translator, and me helping out, two months of medication.
Because we told him we have to leave Taiwan every 90 days until we get resident cards. So we have to leave. And so he said, okay, I’ll give you two months, even though I can only give you one month legally. I will say you’re going to take two a day, to help us out. I mean, he was just being very nice. The whole thing, consultation, in the US, 60 tablets, in France or the United States would have cost 90 euros.
The whole thing cost 23 euros or 23 dollars. And it’s amazing because you pay, it’s on your honor. You go, we could walk out and not pay, but we go around to the reception area, we pay. And by the time we get to the pharmacy in the hospital, they’ve already got it. It’s already ready. It’s just unbelievable. So, she already has her rendezvous with the same doctor on April 15th, two months later, incredibly efficient.
And Evelyne unfortunately, she had a hemorrhage in her left eye and can only see out of the inner left half. In fact, her left eye is almost blind. She said if I go back to France, it takes six months. It takes six, three, four months to see a specialist in France now. If you have a melanoma, you’re already dead. If you want to go see a dermatologist, they make you wait.
We know a guy, an older gentleman who had something wrong with his bones and musculature, he could not get a doctor’s appointment for, like, two or three months to go to a specialist that he needed to go see. And he ended up being handicapped the rest of his life. So, we went back to the our Puli Hospital and said, she’s going to see her regular doctor on the 18th of February. And we showed them the rendezvous, the one I just told you about that cost 23 euros. But she needs to see an ophthalmologist because she’s got eye problems.
And again, in France, you could wait six months to see somebody, and you might even have to travel two or three hours to a bigger city to even see one. So, she looked at the reservation for February 18th. And she said, okay, well, we’ll set you up with the ophthalmologist the same morning, and this was like a week before. Unbelievable. So we go see the ophthalmologist. Nice, nice old man.
He’s been around a while. He knows ophthalmology. Evelyne had the complete battery of tests, all the eye tests that you can possibly have. And he even did a retinal photograph, and he comped that. He said, oh, you don’t have a health card. Well, I won’t make you pay so much. You know, this is a Christian hospital. It’s a nonprofit. So I’m not going to charge you for the retinal photograph. But he said, well, I can see where you have this damage, blah, blah.
And the ophthalmologist gave her two weeks of drops for glaucoma because she has glaucoma also, and set up the appointment to come back on March 4th, where he’s going to test her again for the glaucoma. And he’s going to give her the Richfield test, where they do little flashes of light all over the place to find out where you can and can’t see. So, she saw an ophthalmologist, got all the tests, and the whole thing cost 776 NTD.
That’s 23 euros to go see an ophthalmologist with all that, with the battery of tests. The drops alone in the US or France would cost 13 dollars. So, are we impressed with Taiwan’s medical system? We sure are. Then, after she went and saw her the doctor the first time, I realized I was running out of my medication, which is not mundane, but still, I had to have a prescription. And unfortunately, I was running out during Chinese New Year when the hospital was closed.
I mean, it’s open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for emergencies, but the administration was closed, like you couldn’t see the beautiful Last Supper painting, mural painting, because all those people were on vacation. So, they had their skeleton staff for the emergency room. I went to the emergency room. So, it cost a little bit more. And he gave me 10 days of my medication until after Chinese New Year was over, and then got me an appointment after Chinese New Year, the emergency room consultation, and 10 days medication for 49 euros.
I mean, Jesus Christ, it’s a Christian Hospital. All right, so then I go and see my doctor and I get registered. You have to pay a little bit for registration, just like Evelyne did. My doctor’s consultation took about 15 minutes. They’re asking all kinds of questions, how do you feel? What’s going on? Why are you taking this medication and blah, blah. Two months of medication, two months of medication.
The medication in France alone costs 10 euros a month. My doctor gave me two months of medication. She was ready to give me even more, but I thought, well, I’m going to come back and just make sure everything’s okay. And that cost 39 euros to see a doctor for a full consultation, with two months of medication for 39 euros. Just think about that. And again in France, try to go see your family doctor. It’s like well, maybe in May.
Two months later, rendezvous all set on May 15th, I’ll go back and see the doc and check in. Then last week, Evelyne saw a growth on my back. I mean, I’ve had so many where you can see the scar on my forehead here. On my nose. I’ve had gazillion basal cell carcinomas in my life. There’s another one right here in the middle of my forehead. And so Evelyne said, well, there’s this growth on your back.
You know, I think you should go see the doctor. Again, in France, you want to see a dermatologist, you might wait 3 to 6 months to even see one. And every time I went and saw the young doctor in France, she never had liquid nitrogen. You know, they used liquid nitrogen to burn off keratoses and small tumors, etc. She was always out. Always out. But we’ll cut it out. And so I had several cut out. And then of course you have to pay for the biopsy.
And even with my French universal health care, my co-insurance would only pay half of the biopsy. So every time she cut one, it was 50 euros out of my pocket. Well, this young doctor, another lady doctor, she burned off about ten of my back. And in the United States, I know they charge you anywhere from 50 to 75 euros or dollars per burn. Here, very efficient, very professional, and she burned them all off, and she said, tell your partner that just to check you out.
Check you out every once a month or whatever, and if she sees anything, just come back in. She didn’t make us another appointment. She said be sure to have her check what I burned off today. And if anything comes back, then come in and we’ll get you an appointment. But obviously, I don’t have to wait six months. I mean, I went in and I had an appointment in less than a week. So dermatologist, specialist burned off ten lesions on my back. The total cost is 1,290 NTD.
That’s 38 euros. 38 euros. Unbelievable. Are we impressed with Taiwan’s healthcare? Oh, boy, we sure are. It’s unbelievable. And they’re professional and they’re courteous and they take their time with you. Today, I waited. I actually I got there kind of early because we screwed up on her ophthalmologist and got there too late and we kind of cut into their lunch. So this time, I actually got there earlier than I needed to, but I only had to wait an hour and I’m sure I can get another appointment with the Dr. He. Her name is Dr. He. I can get an appointment with Dr. He, you know, in a week or two. Not a problem.
So, why in the United States are one third of all bankruptcies caused by medical care – co-pays in the thousands of dollars, deductibles in the thousands of dollars? France, you can’t see anybody. It takes months to see someone. And of course to pay the debt, the national debt pays usury to the bankers in the City of London.
They’re cutting back this. They’re cutting back that. They’ve shut down tens of thousands of hospital beds. They’re not paying for this now. They’re not paying for that now. More out of pocket when France five or 10 years ago had the best medical systems supposedly in the world, but after being here in Taiwan for four months, my God.
So anyway, I thought you all would enjoy that. We have no fear of something happening to us here. We know we’re going to get taken care of and we know it’s going to be reasonable. And then, Evelyne is actually going to get her resident permit on March 11th. And after that, she gets the medical card. I don’t even know if she’s going to even have to pay anything at that point. So just unbelievable.
This is Jeff J. Brown signing out. Have a good day.
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