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PacificLots
Joined 2008
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How Costa Rica Improved My Life

12 years ago

Here's my new topic. Please if you don't have something positive to contribute to this topic, please do not post....

Costa Rica has changed my life. I can afford a lifestyle i could not in the US. I can afford "wellness care" that I could not have afforded in the states, I have had a colonoscopy, an endoscopy, a bone density scan, an ultrasound of my organs, a stress test, an EKG, blood and urinalysis that I would never have been able to afford in the US. I did not take any of these tests because I was sick in any way. I took them to verifty that I am well. The colonoscopy in the US was going to cost me nearly $3000. I had all these tests done without the aid of any insurance and paid $1100 total. I have also been able to afford the dental care I had been putting off for years in the US. I have had mulitple crowns, root canals, a bone graft and dental surgery and to date have spent less than $2000 for all of it. The last crown and root canal I'd had in the US cost me over $2000 just for one.

I have also had the opportunity to be involved in a volunteer capacity. My wife and I worked with the SPCA in the US and with an organzation devoted to providing low cost and no cost healthcare for women. I have found equally meaningful opportunities to "help out" others less fortunate than we are in Costa Rica. No country is perfect but I don't know of any other that I would prefer to be involved with.

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