>> I don't even know where that would be, although I suppose the insurance company would tell me.
... it's fairly possible there is a big international difference, though also this stuff is more topical for not-incredibly-acute surgical stuff where you're spending weeks in and out of hospital rather than, like, urgent wounds? So yeah a part of it is just less-busy specialists and a nicer room if you have to go in to get your appendix out or equivalent.
>> Some of it's luck,
yeah I do appreciate the deliberate effort you put in but also not wanting to do international travel At All does seem to be a huge edge in this regard.
(There's a small part of me which would, if I were incomprehensibly rich, spend six months living in every major city in the world kinda deal, I like living in interesting places (give or take covid-trauma) but I am an awful tourist so holidays are much less appealing to me. Maybe if I end up with a much larger retirement fund than expected I would be able to afford rent? IDK. But it's a thing that sounds appealing to do. I think most people have stuff like that.)
>> Now that is *definitely* a good reason to buy private health insurance.
... you know I have no idea if the guy who I was referencing there did buy insurance for that. I hope he did but really could not say. Might ask him, next time I see him.
>> I'm pretty sure this is *also* a nocebo thing
... I don't think I can feel things like that. Maybe that's what everyone was so annoyed at me for not being able to answer questions about what it was like in norway.
>> I'm pretty sure I like Michael James on Money
I'll add the former to the pile; the latter is not topical to my financial interests, and My Own Advisor has an unpleasant website on a ten-second read and you didn't recommend it highly enough for me to move past "this seems like it would be a pain to archive binge".
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... it's fairly possible there is a big international difference, though also this stuff is more topical for not-incredibly-acute surgical stuff where you're spending weeks in and out of hospital rather than, like, urgent wounds? So yeah a part of it is just less-busy specialists and a nicer room if you have to go in to get your appendix out or equivalent.
>> Some of it's luck,
yeah I do appreciate the deliberate effort you put in but also not wanting to do international travel At All does seem to be a huge edge in this regard.
(There's a small part of me which would, if I were incomprehensibly rich, spend six months living in every major city in the world kinda deal, I like living in interesting places (give or take covid-trauma) but I am an awful tourist so holidays are much less appealing to me. Maybe if I end up with a much larger retirement fund than expected I would be able to afford rent? IDK. But it's a thing that sounds appealing to do. I think most people have stuff like that.)
>> Now that is *definitely* a good reason to buy private health insurance.
... you know I have no idea if the guy who I was referencing there did buy insurance for that. I hope he did but really could not say. Might ask him, next time I see him.
>> I'm pretty sure this is *also* a nocebo thing
... I don't think I can feel things like that. Maybe that's what everyone was so annoyed at me for not being able to answer questions about what it was like in norway.
>> I'm pretty sure I like Michael James on Money
I'll add the former to the pile; the latter is not topical to my financial interests, and My Own Advisor has an unpleasant website on a ten-second read and you didn't recommend it highly enough for me to move past "this seems like it would be a pain to archive binge".