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Good hospitalization plans in Australia or Canada
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Bloody hell.. so are you heading down to Canada or Australia?
I took up MediBank Pte.. but changed to cheaper HBA...
Soon, I'll be taking up the govt hospital-free medical when i retire at 45. I hv another 7more years to work.. haiz...
Choice gives good independent consumer advice.
http://www.choice.com.au/Reviews-an...onal/Health-insurance-review-and-compare.aspx
I do have to agree with your wife, it is better for you to stay in Singapore, you are not a risk taker.
There are no perfect governing systems in the world, there are always PRO AND CON, it is how we adjust to it.
I do not know how Australia health system work nor do i need to compare Australia with Canada health care, if they are better more power to them after all it is the general public that benefits from it most.
My wife has cancer, after operation and on going medical care, i still haven't fork out a single cent other than driving her here and there, the Chemo and surgery and after care are provided by the govt, medication is cover by our company insurance.
If i am living in Singapore i would be broke paying all the bills, it been 5 years, and we do have on going specialist check up twcie a year at the Credit Valley Cancer Center.
We do pay high tax, but looking back thing will work out just fine.
There are no perfect governing systems in the world, there are always PRO AND CON, it is how we adjust to it.
I do not know how Australia health system work nor do i need to compare Australia with Canada health care, if they are better more power to them after all it is the general public that benefits from it most.
My wife has cancer, after operation and on going medical care, i still haven't fork out a single cent other than driving her here and there, the Chemo and surgery and after care are provided by the govt, medication is cover by our company insurance.
If i am living in Singapore i would be broke paying all the bills, it been 5 years, and we do have on going specialist check up twcie a year at the Credit Valley Cancer Center.
We do pay high tax, but looking back thing will work out just fine.
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stop wasting others' time by asking non-actionable questions when you have already in your mind allowed your wife to make the final decision.
Sorry to hear about your wife. Will share a similar situation about singaporean couple that migrated and shortly after found that the wife had cancer. This was in Oz. Everything was free. They asked the hubby to be primary carer and the Australian system provided income for him.
He cried when we spoke and thanked god for sending him to OZ. He told me this incident in particular. The hospital staff made ward rounds with sandwiches of various mix. They asked him what he wanted and he told them that he was not the patient but his wife was. They told him that sandwiches were meant for spouses keeping watch over the patient. He said that Singapore will never get it in a 100 years.
He cried when we spoke and thanked god for sending him to OZ. He told me this incident in particular. The hospital staff made ward rounds with sandwiches of various mix. They asked him what he wanted and he told them that he was not the patient but his wife was. They told him that sandwiches were meant for spouses keeping watch over the patient. He said that Singapore will never get it in a 100 years.
I will try not be judgmental, but based on the "materialistic culture" probably strengthened by the leaders and the government of Singapore, I believe that regardless of the criteria for evaluation or determination of which country has achieved "first-world status", based on how the government treats its citizens, and the policies, mindset, attitude and culture, it appears that Singapore will take much longer to achieve "real first-world status".
For example, if we as a family go out on the weekends, and when we are taking the Toronto Transit Commission's subway and buses, and buy a TTC day pass (good for one day of unlimited travel for 2 adults and 4 children or one adult and 5 children), and since I have an unlimited travel monthly pass (C$100), we usually offer to ask another adult and/or other children to piggy back on our day pass, free (especially when we had 2 or 3 children in the past).
Yesterday, after treating our children to brunch at the top of the Westin with an excellent view of Toronto Island, Island Airport, Lake Ontario, on our way back, while waiting for the streetcar (tram) one lady by herself told me that she could take our children on her TTC day pass.
This past summer, when we did not buy a season pass for the Centre Island amusement park, because the children are growing up, except for the youngest child, and we were on our way home from the beach on Toronto Island, one lady who was about to leave, handed a batch of tickets to me, because she thought our 4 children could use those tickets.
The US corporation which operates all the amusement rides at the Canadian National Exhibition ("CNE") [and across Canada and USA] relies on workers from the Republic of South Africa. I see those young adults working 12 hours every day with very few days off, and not eating fresh balanced meals. Since last year, whenever I go (2 to 3 times a year) to the CNE, I carry a bag of fresh fruits (bananas, oranges, grapes, peaches and home made pasta or buy packaged chicken rice or noodles or whatever they desire) for each of the several of the friendly guys, especially those working hard to earn money for university education.
Various individuals have been very kind to me during my initial years in Toronto, and it is a good way to return God's graces.
I rarely see such spontaneous gestures in Singapore.
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stop wasting others' time by asking non-actionable questions when you have already in your mind allowed your wife to make the final decision.
i am afraid that's your conclusion
Thanks Chucky for your sharing about your wife. I hope she is well, healthy and live long.
As for your opinion on my risk-taking abilities, anyone who is risk defying to risk adverse can make the decision to migrate. A risk defier will pack his suitcase and go off with a $1,000 in his pocket. A risk defier with a family cannot do that. Or he still may
Everyone has their unique life stage and personalities. Thus your answer can be helpful.But if you do not feel like answering my question because you feel it is a waste of your time, then do not answer for me but rather answer for others.
Its just his way of encouraging and prodding you. Don't give up. I know 2 cases where one the wife and another case where the grandmother were not cool to the idea of migrating.
The wife case, the guy did everything, applying, got approval and finally got his wife to speak to me. I painted good, bad and the ugly. They are now in Sydney.
Grandmother case, they hoodwinked her that it was job posting. After grandma's first visit, she is regular and the biggest champion of migration. I spoke to this lady and she now claims that she told her son to migrate.
Never give up on a dream.
The wife case, the guy did everything, applying, got approval and finally got his wife to speak to me. I painted good, bad and the ugly. They are now in Sydney.
Grandmother case, they hoodwinked her that it was job posting. After grandma's first visit, she is regular and the biggest champion of migration. I spoke to this lady and she now claims that she told her son to migrate.
Never give up on a dream.
thanks....
>>Thanks Chucky for your sharing about your wife. I hope she is well, healthy and live long.<<
Thanks, she is doing well.
>>As for your opinion on my risk-taking abilities, anyone who is risk defying to risk adverse can make the decision to migrate. A risk defier will pack his suitcase and go off with a $1,000 in his pocket. A risk defier with a family cannot do that. Or he still may Everyone has their unique life stage and personalities. Thus your answer can be helpful.<<
Been there done that, came to Canada with under 1k 1way ticket leaving all my brothers, sisters and most of all my Mom and Dad behind and not looking back, no cert of higher learning and no plan, what i have is an ATTITUDE that say it can be done.
My Dad did the same when he is 13 years old he left Hainan island with nothing, just himself and the will to start a new life, it run in the family, we always have a choice and the will to make it.
Thanks, she is doing well.
>>As for your opinion on my risk-taking abilities, anyone who is risk defying to risk adverse can make the decision to migrate. A risk defier will pack his suitcase and go off with a $1,000 in his pocket. A risk defier with a family cannot do that. Or he still may Everyone has their unique life stage and personalities. Thus your answer can be helpful.<<
Been there done that, came to Canada with under 1k 1way ticket leaving all my brothers, sisters and most of all my Mom and Dad behind and not looking back, no cert of higher learning and no plan, what i have is an ATTITUDE that say it can be done.
My Dad did the same when he is 13 years old he left Hainan island with nothing, just himself and the will to start a new life, it run in the family, we always have a choice and the will to make it.
Thanks, she is doing well.
I too am sorry to hear about your wife and hope she is doing well.
In any case you are not too far from MD Anderson, the very best treatment centre in he world.
All the best,
Hi whats4,
Do you need to know exact amount and rental cost.
I have eaxctly 750 cad dollar, rent per month 300 after paying first and last, i have only 50 cad dollars left to live on same apt that my my wife happen to liv in.
If 1 is not afraid of hard work or get dirty and long hrs work, there is no problem getting job, it is the will to do it that matter most.
Do you need to know exact amount and rental cost.
I have eaxctly 750 cad dollar, rent per month 300 after paying first and last, i have only 50 cad dollars left to live on same apt that my my wife happen to liv in.
If 1 is not afraid of hard work or get dirty and long hrs work, there is no problem getting job, it is the will to do it that matter most.
Thanks, she is doing well.
hi chucky
if hard dirty work is not an issue, consider the labor and immigration laws would hv change compare to 20s ago + the current economic environment, alot of things would hv change. think it is still feasible?
