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Where did you look for this reference? It wouldn’t be in an English dictionary. So, you don’t know what a Mommoni is??????? Oh my GOD! I guess you’re NOT Italian! A Mommoni is the epitome of a mamma’s boy, taken to the extreme, and they are proud of it. For some Italian men, even after they are long married and have their own families, his mother will come over and cook his favorite meals, iron his underwwear (yes, that’s right — my husband’s mother did that!), arrange his closet, and make sure that the wife is taking proper care of her son. A Mommoni is nothing like a mamma’s boy in America. They don’t even come close to being a Mommoni. Mommoni’s are very special men. And any woman would be proud to have one as her own! jejeje
Dogo — As I suggested before, another book you should definitely add to your expanded reading list is “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin DeBecker. He talks extensively about men with your attitude, and why every woman should be on the look-out for blokes such as yourself, who are in myriad ways, a threat to any woman. Have a good day, Dodo.
Thanks for the laugh. Your comments caused me to spew coffee on my keyboard. I was going to suggest that they join the Taliban. jejeje
Hey, Crayze, I lost your e-mail addy. Want to hear about your trip and hooking up with Andrew, etc. As for american towns in CR, I just shake my head and wonder why someone would even leave home if they don’t want to experience the culture. Oh, well, to each his own.
Thanks, MT. So is Plan 16 the Caja plan? And are the policies with much higher limits private policies, such as BC/BS?
Cindy, it’s beyond simply gringa bashing — it’s like the guy who goes to a brothel hoping for a virgin and then complains that ALL women are putas. If he wants to meet respectable and traditional women he should go a church, or a political group, or a book club, or some other org that fosters his interests where he may just meet a like-minded person, not a bar or disco. And not all women hang out in malls — I haven’t been in a mall in 13 years. I also don’t drive a fancy car or even a new car. In fact, I don’t know any women like the ones he’s talking about either. So his sweeping generalizations are absurd, not to mention insulting. I do agree with him that American culture is pretty lowdown — I liked it a lot better three decades ago, and one of the reasons I’ve always liked Latin cultures is the respect for parents and the elderly, and the way their lives revolve around family. It’s particularly touching when I see young girls and boys escorting their very elderly grandparents around the town where I live in Costa Rica. That’s certainly something we don’t see much of in this country. And he should also read the book “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin DeBecker (actually ALL women should read this book) because it examines certain kinds of attitudes and what they mean when it comes to a woman’s safety.
Why don’t you just post the whole thing in this thread — perhaps there are more people than just a few of us who might be interested in this information. For me, personally, I can’t imagine spending anywhere near $17,000 on healthcare, given my justifiable distrust of doctors and Big Pharma, so I guess I’d better hope and pray I don’t get hit by a truck or come down with some man-made catastrophic illness! jejeje Aside from that, I am curious about the limits, especially if this 17-thou they talked about is incorrect.
I went to Howard’s site just to see for myself what it said about the cap, and here is the part about the $17,000:
“There is a ceiling of around $17,000 per individual. Since medical costs are so low in Costa Rica, this policy is more than enough to take care of your medical needs.”
It doesn’t say this is a yearly cap, it simply says that it’s a “ceiling” which to me means that that’s the cap. If it were a yearly thing, I would think it would’ve stated that specifically. I didn’t look on ARCR to see if they say it’s an annual ceiling or a lifetime ceiling, but I distinctly remember commenting to my husband about the 17-thou cap (when I was reading every book I could find on Costa Rica) and we both laughed about how that would barely cover a day’s stay in a hospital in the US, or a year’s worth of a lot of xpensive meds.
You might be right if you saw it on Howard’s site because it was his book that I got the 17 thou from, and it’s possible I mis-read it., Please let me know what you find out.
Annual limit??? Nah! That would bankrupt the system. I think it was Christopher Howard’s book that quoted the $17,000 lifetime cap. Given the medical costs in Costa Rica, you’d have to spend half your life going to the doctors and being really really ill and having surgery multiple times a year! Think about it — if an appendectomy only costs $300, well, you get the picture. I don’t think many Ticos are running to their doctor with every ache and pain and taking a half dozen expensive pharmaceuticals at a time. The ones I know still rely on folk remedies and only go to the doctor when they have something they can’t cure themselves.
I wish I could remember where I read that, but it was from a legitimate source and when I mentioned it to a friend of mine in CR, he said it didn’t surprise him and then recounted how he had an emergency appendectomy — ambulance to the hospital, blood work, surgery, anesthiologist, and three days in the hospital — total cost? three hundred dollars! And this was three years ago. Last year he had several — three I think — surgeries for cancer, and also had radiation. Rather than go through the caja system he paid out of pocket and his total cost was around ten grand for the whole enchilada, so given what the average doctor charges and what hospital costs are in CR, seventeen grand sounds about right.
I read somewhere early on when I was investigating healthcare in Costa Rica that the cap for Ticos in Caja was about $17,000 — that’s all the CR gov’t expects that any person in their plan will spend IN A LIFETIME for medical care. 17 grand would barely cover a trip to the ER in the States. If our healthcare system in the States is so great how come we have so many sick people? Part of the reason is that they are given expensive drugs for which there is no scientific evidence that they work except to make more money for the pharmaceutical companies. One million people a year die just from getting medical care in the States — that includes bad drugs, drug interactions, toxic combinations of drugs, doctor mistakes, infections in hospitals. One only has to read the book “Selling Sickness” to see that we are anything but a healthy nation, and that we take waaaaaaay more pharmaceuticals than almost any country on the planet. I would hope that a change of lifestyle, improvement of diet in the way of more fruits and vegetables, more exercise, and less stress would do a lot for the health of people moving to Costa Rica — esp our boomer generation which is now being targeted as a moneymaking segement for Big Pharma. They’ll have to catch me first!!!
Diego, you need to lighten up a bit. It really sounds like you’ve had some terrible experiences with gringas. That’s unfortunate, because we’re really not such a bad lot. Despite the fact that my husband is a chef, I’m the one who does 99% of the cooking in our family. it’s not either a woman’s or a man’s job — I do it because it’s my passion. Yes, I have children — strong independent women with families AND a career. Women can do other things beside being a brood mare, especially since the last thing the world needs is MORE people. I guess in your world women should be in a chador or burkha. As for my superior attitude, well, guess who’s started all the wars I don’t believe in? And haven’t you ever wondered why there are only shelters for battered women and not men? Wife beating was once part of a tradition, and in some countries, it still is. Some traditions are good, others are antiquated and destructive, but thankfully, traditions change, even in a Latin culture. You might not like it, but some of those changes are here to stay.
