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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (26075)2/14/2010 10:48:47 AM
From: Hope Praytochange  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
He is another place with free healthcare I found interesting. Here’s a tidbit from Marcella Hazan’s delightful memoir, “Amarcord.”

When she and her husband realized they were getting too old to negotiate the stairs and bridges of Venice, they decided to move back to the United States.

“We did not want suddenly to find ourselves at the mercy of Italy’s nationalized health care,” she writes. “When an expatriate in Venice asks another expatriate, ‘Where do you go when you need a good doctor?’ the reply is ‘To the airport.’