Tuesday, June 15, 2010

I went to Rwanda and all I got was this national healthcare

In my last post, I mentioned that my only fear of quitting my job is losing health insurance. Interestingly, right after I wrote it, I stumbled upon this article about national health insurance in Rwanda. Some food for thought.

Excerpt:
He met an American college student passing through last year, and found it “absurd, ridiculous, that I have health insurance and she didn’t,” he said, adding: “And if she got sick, her parents might go bankrupt. The saddest thing was the way she shrugged her shoulders and just hoped not to fall sick.”

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