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Author: newfydog   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Reading tea leaves
Date: 08/10/2024 1:55 PM
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You should check out Costa Rica. Excellent weather, good quality health care covering everyone, stable democracy, large US expat community…

Take a vacation and see if it is for you.


I would not recommend going there for health care. I recently had an appendectomy in a rural hospital in Costa Rica. It was cheap, and the outcome was fine, but I was not impressed with having to climb over cots to get to the one toilet (with no seat but at least there was a nail to hang my IV bag). The lizards on the ceiling were entertaining and I got to practice my Spanish, because only the surgeon spoke much English.

There are some fancier hospitals, but it is not uniformly great health care.

Bringing this back to BRK, I doubled up on my BRK in my last years before Medicare kicked in. I eliminated all my dividend paying investments and lived off a cash pile for two years. My insurance under the ACA dropped from $1500 a month to $100.
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