A Foreigner Seen Laying Out Unconsciously On The Sidewalk

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BOFH wrote:
Samouth wrote:I just thought that if it was a local guy found laying out on the sidewalk like this, police probably wouldn't call ambulance, maybe just applied some tiger balm to the guy.
How many local guys have health insurance or any other realistic way of paying large hospital bills? I think it's more the fact that westerners are more likely to pay the bills.
I think it's more that you can "check their ID" while they're out to it...
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You don't need to call an ambulance to rob someone so I consider your argument invalid.
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hanno wrote:
Samouth wrote:
StroppyChops wrote:
Samouth wrote:Agree or not that our police seems to pay more attention and treat foreigner and expats much better than local ?
When I was lying close to unconsciousness in the middle of the busy Monivong/MTT intersection after an unplated SUV ran the lights and ran me down, the police on two corners could not have cared less.
Sorry to hear that people didnt care about you. I just thought that if it was a local guy found laying out on the sidewalk like this, police probably wouldn't call ambulance, maybe just applied some tiger balm to the guy.
Found a passed-out Barang a couple of years ago. This was around 5 am on Charles de Gaulle with hundreds of cars heading for sunrise at Angkor Wat and Gendarmerie stationed 20 meters away on either side. Not one person helped. (After I organized an ambulance and got him sorted out at the hospital, he just disappeared without so much as a "thank you"
but that is another story.)
Luckily you were there to save him. Sorry that hear anything like this.
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BOFH wrote:
Samouth wrote:I just thought that if it was a local guy found laying out on the sidewalk like this, police probably wouldn't call ambulance, maybe just applied some tiger balm to the guy.
How many local guys have health insurance or any other realistic way of paying large hospital bills? I think it's more the fact that westerners are more likely to pay the bills.
Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
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Samouth wrote: Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
I think I don't have it too. :(
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prahkeitouj wrote:
Samouth wrote: Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
I think I don't have it too. :(
haha no surprise actually buying health insurance is not common in Cambodia.
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Samouth wrote:
prahkeitouj wrote:
Samouth wrote: Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
I think I don't have it too. :(
haha no surprise actually buying health insurance is not common in Cambodia.
Which is actually pretty stupid.
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Samouth wrote:Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
And that's why they leave you on the street to bleed to death if something happens but pick up the barang and send him away in an ambulance. One can pay and the other cannot, makes sense no?

Health insurance: Hospital
No health insurance: Tiger balm
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hanno wrote:
Samouth wrote:
prahkeitouj wrote:
Samouth wrote: Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
I think I don't have it too. :(
haha no surprise actually buying health insurance is not common in Cambodia.
Which is actually pretty stupid.
The majority of Cambodians are already struggling and having hard time to bring food on the table for three time per day. Most of us don't earn much, so do you think they would dare to spend their little money to buy health insurance. Plus, it ain't cheap though.
បើសិនធ្វើចេះ ចេះឲ្យគេកោត បើសិនធ្វើឆោត ឆោតឲ្យគេអាណិត។

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Re: A Foreigner Seen Laying Out Unconsciously On The Sidewal

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BOFH wrote:
Samouth wrote:Almost every local guys don't have health insurance, for instance, me.
And that's why they leave you on the street to bleed to death if something happens but pick up the barang and send him away in an ambulance. One can pay and the other cannot, makes sense no?

Health insurance: Hospital
No health insurance: Tiger balm
I wonder if the situation change, if it was him or him lol

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