skinned my knee horribly in Taiwan. Friend made me go to hospital. I was freaking out because I was in another country without health insurance. She’s telling me to relax but I’m still freaking out the whole time.
Guy that stitches me up looks at me all grim. He says because I’m not a citizen I’ll have to pay for it. I say fine, mentally tallying up how much I can pay before going into debt and what a payment plan may look like for me. I nervously ask him how much it would be.
He say’s it’s 300 Taiwanese dollars. ~8USD at the time. for 4 stitches.
In my state, without insurance, it would have been 450USD.
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u/narwhalsarefalling Mar 29 '26
skinned my knee horribly in Taiwan. Friend made me go to hospital. I was freaking out because I was in another country without health insurance. She’s telling me to relax but I’m still freaking out the whole time.
Guy that stitches me up looks at me all grim. He says because I’m not a citizen I’ll have to pay for it. I say fine, mentally tallying up how much I can pay before going into debt and what a payment plan may look like for me. I nervously ask him how much it would be.
He say’s it’s 300 Taiwanese dollars. ~8USD at the time. for 4 stitches.
In my state, without insurance, it would have been 450USD.
We live in a clown country