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On a couple of occasions, members of my extended family and I have had opportunity to seek help at Spanish hospitals.
After treatment, when we asked hospital personnel about payment, they looked at us as if we were extraterrestrials.
They could not fathom what we were talking about.
The reasoning behind our inquiry was inconceivable to them: "Why would we think we owed them money?"
There is no “financial office” inside any Spanish hospital.
There is no cash register.
There is nobody who might even accept money, even if we wanted to "leave a tip.”
Spanish hospitals -- and hospitals throughout Western Europe -- are filled with top-quality physicians and nurses whose only mission is to heal people.
The notion of "putting profit ahead of people" is not part of Europeans' psycho-social make-up. (An aside... A year into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV is "getting his footing," and his emerging emphasis on "the common good" and people's right to healthcare. Here is how Google AI summarized Pope Leo's position.
We Americans live in SUCH a sick society.
It has become a real - and a crucial - question whether the world would be a better place if (what we call) "American civilization” were to collapse.
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(This installment is about an American getting healthcare in Europe. It coincides precisely with my experience.)
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