About Me
- Name: sandegaye
- Location: Tellico Plains, Tennessee, United States
I am a spiritual being having a physical experience. I love delving into the inner world & learning all I can about why I'm here & where I'm going. My mother, now transitioned to another plane, was a Cherokee shaman. She taught me the meaning of 'Namaste'.. meaning 'I recognize the God in you', and 'Nokomis'.. meaning 'Walk in Beauty', a Navajo term, that tells us to walk in balance with all of earth. My father, also transitioned, was a fun-loving Irishman who taught me the joy of risktaking, traveling, & living life to its fullest. I have hopefully taken the best of their offerings in forming the 'me' I am today. I am the mother of six, grandmother of five, stepmother of 2 more & step-gram for 6 more. My cup is full & running over..;o) My goal is to live 'juicy'!
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Sunday, November 20, 2005
This is our future..
Just take Grandpa to the crematory & skip the middleman.
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Updated: 11:19 a.m. ET Nov. 18, 2005
BEIJING - A Chinese peasant woman who suffered a brain hemorrhage was left at the undertakers alive for cremation because her family could no longer afford hospital treatment, state media said on Friday.
She was only saved by the tears in her eyes.
The case is the latest in a series of tragedies illustrating China’s stretched health care system and the inability of rural workers to meet spiraling medical costs.
You Guoying, a 47-year-old migrant worker from southwestern Sichuan province, was taken for cremation by her husband and children in Taizhou, eastern Zhejiang province, where she worked, the China Youth Daily said.
Fortunately for You, the undertaker realized she was still alive when he saw her move and tears in her eyes, the newspaper said.
“This is not only a tragedy for the family, but also for society,” it quoted Xu Yinghe, a Taizhou official, as saying.
“The fundamental reason is the absence of a social welfare system.”
You was taken back to hospital for further treatment with money donated by sympathetic citizens of prosperous Zhejiang, the newspaper said.
“Three days of treatment cost us more than 10,000 yuan ($1,200),” it quoted her daughter as saying, adding that was the sum of the family’s life savings.
“If there had been another option, who would have the heart to send a member of their own family for cremation while there was still a hope of survival?”
The newspaper did not say if the family would face charges.
Too poor to afford treatment
Vice Health Minister Zhu Qingsheng said last December that about half of all farmers could not afford medical treatment when sick.
A 42-year-old farmer too poor to afford treatment for lung cancer set off a home-made bomb aboard a bus in Fuzhou, capital of the southeastern province of Fujian, in August, killing himself and another passenger and wounding 30.
Also in August, a security guard hailed a hero for fighting off a purse snatcher jumped to his death from a hospital window in south Guangxi province because he couldn’t afford the bills.
In the late 1970s, 94 percent of China’s villagers were covered by cooperative medical schemes. But the collectives were disbanded during market reforms of the 1980s which ended cradle-to-grave welfare for the masses.
Anyhow from your last post I have a craft idea for the kids. Make outdoor ordaments for the birds take big pinecones spead peanutbutter on them and roll them in bird seed then decorate with ribbions and hang them out in the yard then you can see which one the birds to come to it first.have fun and a very blessed Thanksgiving.
Why is socialized medicine viewed as such a bad thing? At the end of the day, the gov winds up footing the bill anyway...so why not set something up that benefits both patient AND the gov? Allow those who can/want to have "fancy" health care to do so. Allow those who have no health options to be served by the gov.
So sad.
I enjoy the freedom to visit my doctor, - free; be refered to a consultant for follow-up treatment, - free and hospital and after-care free to the point of discharge and if the out-patient follow-up is required, then that also is free. (I say free, but we do pay for it through taxes, - but rather that than have to pay insurance.)
The system is so ingrained in the UK psychi, that even the right-wing fear tinkering with it. Sure the insurance companies would love us to pay up, but at the moment, no matter what people say, we have a pretty good health service, and it is free.
We are middle income people & can't afford one stitch of insurance! If anything happens to us, we'll be carting the other to the crematorium.
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