[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

No, the minority report is factual unless you think a majority of TOTV members think that healthcare in Ecuador is “excellent “

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

OK. I "think a majority of TOTV members think that healthcare in Ecuador is 'excellent'", ergo, your assertions are not factual. They are just plain snarky. Anything else you want to concede to my thoughts?

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Are we all to take it that your individual opinion speaks for the majority??? ...

You gave me that option. I took it.

[Two Bills]

As for the OP.
We have a 2009 Volvo XC60 Lux. 67,592 miles.
Not even 'run in' yet, and will probably see wife and off to our journey to Valhalla!

[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

How does a "vacation" give anyone a basis for evaluating healthcare in any country???? You probably would need to get sick in that country, and then it is still only one individual experience.

That might not be difficult to do. Take your pick from a list I found in The Journal of Travel Medicine (1992).

Cholera Typhoid/paratyphoid Tuberculosis Plague Brucellosis LeptospirosisTyphus Leprosy
Diphtheria Meningococcal disease Tetanus Parotiditis Syphilis/gonorrhea Diarrhea (allcauses)
Influenza Polio Yellow Fever Encephalitis (VEE) Rabies
Herpes Influenza Measles Mumps Rubella Dengue SIDA Leishmaniasis Chagas Malaria
Paragonimiasis Echinococcosis Onchocercosis Cysticercosis

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

You gave me that option. I took it.

Kudos!!!! You win the daily semantics and parse words award.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

That might not be difficult to do. Take your pick from a list I found in The Journal of Travel Medicine (1992).

Cholera Typhoid/paratyphoid Tuberculosis Plague Brucellosis LeptospirosisTyphus Leprosy
Diphtheria Meningococcal disease Tetanus Parotiditis Syphilis/gonorrhea Diarrhea (allcauses)
Influenza Polio Yellow Fever Encephalitis (VEE) Rabies
Herpes Influenza Measles Mumps Rubella Dengue SIDA Leishmaniasis Chagas Malaria
Paragonimiasis Echinococcosis Onchocercosis Cysticercosis

You left out wucheriasis, brugeiasis, schistosomiasis and trypanosomiases to name a few off the top of my head. (Although technically not the latter, since Chagas disease is Trypanosoma cruzi, but significantly different from the African varieties T. gambiense and T. rhodesiense). However, most on that list are not endemic to Ecuador. I'd be more interested in how their "excellent" healthcare system handles 3 vessel CAD(coronary artery disease) or even a CAP(community acquired pneumonitis) or SIE(stroke in evolution). See how well "cheaper" serves you then.

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Kudos!!!! You win the daily semantics and parse words award.

Gracias. Coming from you, it means a lot.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by Ecuadog

Gracias. Coming from you, it means a lot.

You're welcome---I know when I've been outplayed

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by ChrisTee

Cars - Carmax offered me 12% more than I paid for my SUV than I paid new in Feb. I ordered it, took 5 months to get here. I drove it across the US. Carmax is offering me 12% more now. Crazy times.

I get all sorts of offers in mail. Offers and actually what will pay two different horses.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by MartinSE

Well, that is an Internet comparison, my wife and I lived there for 6 months over 2 years and first hand experience was that healthcare was excellent, available, and virtually free. We didn't just google or read some post, we went there while we were looking where to retire. The Villages won on several items, for one we both have VA healthcare with is also free, and local. Another is this is closer to my wives family, which is important.

Yes, America does have SOME of the best healthcare that money can buy, so some come here (not all, the best healthcare in the world is in Spain) but that best that money can buy, doesn't help the 40 million Americans that are citizens of the richest country in the world and can't afford and so don't have healthcare at all. I am glad you got yours, sucks to be them doesn't it. I know, I know, they ALL are lazy and made bad life choices. Such a Christian country we live in, where 6 million children go to bed hungry every night.

And by spiraling down, I meant if politics continue to spiral down, we will leave. This is no longer the welcoming friendly country I grew up in and at my age, I prefer to like my neighbors, which in Ecuador was easier to do.

Bye.

[BobnBev]

Do they have Dunkin Donuts in Ecuador? Do they have a fourth of July?

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by BobnBev

Do they have Dunkin Donuts in Ecuador? Do they have a fourth of July?

Yes, they have Dunkin' Donuts in Ecuador.

I think that there is a July 4th on the calendar everywhere. If you asking about their Independence Day, it's August 10th.