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[quote=”DavidCMurray”]LisaMarie, you wrote: “You can ask others who are now in the CAJA system for their comments much like you find out about health resources in US. As a nurse that is how the majority of us find out about resources.”
The problems with this approach are
– that you are unlikely to be able to ask enough people for their comments to get a meaningful sample, and
– that the services of the CAJA vary considerably by location within the country and by the type of service the comments refer to.
You could, for example, ask everyone you meet about the CAJA’s emergency care but probably than fewer than one in ten will have actually used the CAJA’s emergency services in the same location(s) or for the same problems. And once you have that information, it will tell you nothing whatsoever about definitive cardiac care nor about diabetes management nor about cancer care.
What’s more, as a nurse you know that most lay people are not qualified to render judgements about the quality of the care they receive. Satisfaction surveys are notoriously misleading.
[/quote]Most people armed with the information can make good decisions. They first have to research then are able to manage their care…I’m just saying the man needs to ssk questions there is nothing magic in that either in US or CR
[quote=”Doug Ward”][quote=”DavidCMurray”]Doug, how will a three month vacation in Costa Rica give anyone comparative information about the resources of the CAJA system to which they will not have access? Other than in an emergency situation, no visitor can gain access to any CAJA service much less sample any number of them.
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You can ask others who are now in the CAJA system for their comments much like you find out about health resources in US. As a nurse that is how the majority of us find out about resourcesI’m wondering why you don’t consider a house sitter type That is an option in Europe and N. America. There are orgs that provide those services and many of the sitters are looking for a vacation space with you having no outlay.
[quote=”costaricafinca”][i]As far as I understand[/i] that if you hire a ‘guard’ on contract through an agency’ is that his temp. replacement will have similar qualifications, and that you will not have to pay the CAJA and INS for two employees as this is supposed to be paid by the company. They are also insured.
[i]At least this is what we were told,[/i] when hiring a night guard was being considered on the farm, during a construction period after many tools, all the wiring from the electric panel and the two large panels/boxes as well plus the motor of the cement mixer was stolen.
There was an article on a local online paper, this week about security guards being removed from their job sites because CAJA had not been paid.I neglected to mention that when paying an [b]empoyees[/b] CAJA it is [b]much more expensive[/b] than to pay your own, as it will also go towards a pension. The total cost of the CAJA payment will be approx. $200 per month, per individual (this will vary on the earnings of course) with 9% being paid by the employee, which they may object too.[/quote]
[quote=”maravilla”]if you are going to live in a Spanish culture, you really do need to learn the language. without out it, the humor, the irony, the political jokes, and the culture will be out of your grasp. i cannot even imagine living in a foreign country without language skills. i learned spanish before i moved to mexico, and i learned french before i moved to france. so moving here was a slam dunk, but there is always room for improvement and i spent more than a year going to spanish classes here. there is more to life in this country than hanging out with gringos, being able to order a beer, or ordering off a menu. you will miss so much of what it really means to live here if you are the outsider who can’t communicate. besides, learning a foreign language will stave off alzheimers. and what would you do in an emergency? could you call an ambulance, or the police, or run to a neighbor for help? what if your car breaks down? how will you tell a taxi where you need to go? what if you wound up in a hospital? speaking spanish might just save your life, and this old adage that no matter how well you speak it, you will always revert to your native tongue in an emergency is a falsehood. when i had to go to the ER after a bad fall and a messed up ankle, it never occurred to me to try and tell someone what happened to me in English and then risk not getting proper care. spanish is fun, and it’s a lot easier than english, and if you can speak spanish, you can then understand french, italian, and portuguese. what a bonus. plus there are more than 500 cognates in spanish. once you learn those you already have a vocabulary.[/quote]
Maravilla…you maske perfect sense. I am deep in Rosetta Stone Spanish presently and learning more and more each dasy. My daily telemuda news is getting easier for me to understand. I won’t be perfect but I will get by and be able to learn more as the months go on.
