If hospitals participate in medicare (almost all) they cannot turn away patients in ER.
"If you’re in the emergency room, you’re probably too injured to haggle with hospital administrators about how you’re going to pay for your care – especially if you don’t have health insurance. Fortunately, in 1986, Congress passed the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) that prohibits a practice commonly known as “patient dumping.” The act gives individuals the right to emergency care regardless of their ability to pay. EMTALA was enacted as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA).
The federal law applies to hospitals that participate in Medicare – and that’s most hospitals in the United States. Even so, EMTALA does not apply to hospital outpatient clinics that are not equipped to handle medical emergencies. But they are required to refer patients to an emergency department in close proximity."
If Hong Kong is 3rd world SF would have to be 5th…
Immigrants tend to be more hardworking, true. But I think why most want to buy houses instead of say investing in stocks is because they have fewer opportunities than locals. That may be because they don’t know the language or not as well as natives, or they are not as “plugged in”. So they choose the easier to understand investment and that usually means houses.
That San Jose couple who tried to buy a street in SF is a classic example of what can go wrong when you are not as plugged in to the power play in city hall and tried to get creative with investment.
There’s a reason I left. When the economy is booming, the auto industry is great. The pay vs cost of living is amazing. The hours and stress level are great. New vehicles only launch every 5 years, so you don’t have product launch stress very often. When I left, we worked 9 hours Mon-Thur and got every other Friday off. In tech, you work at least 9 hours a day and don’t get every other Friday off. I got twice as many paid holidays too. When the economy isn’t booming, the industry gets killed.
You successfully transit from auto industry to IT industry? By earning a Master in CS?
Wow, you’re born lucky, now you have both needed experience. Auto and IT
I went with MBA not CS. My undergrad is electrical engineering, so I wanted to do business afterwards. I almost went back to Apple for the car project, but they cut the project. That would have been really fun for me.
I still think Apple will make a car. No other way for their self driving stuff to go to market. Remember the iPod integration on Motorola Razr before iPhone? Apple cares too much about design and UX for other car makers to fuck up their baby. No car manufacturers get the entertainment system done right. They are just clueless about software.
exactly my point. curing is not same as treating.
They will make sure you don’t die, but you will die anyway from cancer, potentially. They are not curing.
I could related to what maluka said in his post without paying too much attention to 3rd world definition.
I am not sure whether this is 3rd world thing or something else but it is true that I worry more about my retirement life (“government may help me” never occurs to me.) than my American friends.
For one thing, they say they can find cheap and nice place anywhere in US but I don’t really want to start my new life at other place in US. It is not impossible but I have gone through enough big transitions in my life already.
I have little confidence in social security benefit and hence have to work work work to save enough until I can.
Well, it sounds like I did come from 3rd world with no social safety net.
Yes Apple rebooted their car program to focus on the most difficult part. Building an actual EV is much simpler than gas cars. Even small startups like Tesla with limited capital got it done in a few years. There is a company up in Canada that can build custom cars together with Apple. Heck, maybe Apple can even buy the whole company. Pocket change for Apple.
Immigrants are risk takers, so they are more likely to value homeownership. Many people view getting a mortgage as risky. If you are risk averse you wouldn’t immigrate to a foreign land to begin with.
I think Americans are still competitive against the Europeans. Europeans have socialism and they don’t need to work hard. Homeownership is not a priority
Homeownership means security, not risk. Immigrants feel more insecurity and a home means more than a house to them. Some H1Bs are scared of losing job and losing the right to live there so they delay home purchase
