{"id":18558,"date":"2025-02-08T18:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/american-patients-coming-to-nigeria-for-kidney-transplants-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:36:31","slug":"american-patients-coming-to-nigeria-for-kidney-transplants-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/american-patients-coming-to-nigeria-for-kidney-transplants-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"American patients coming to Nigeria for kidney transplants | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote\" data-author=\"Big Road Skateboard\">\n<aside>\n<div class=\"attribution type\">Big Road Skateboard said:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"goto\/post?id=13117636#post-13117636\" class=\"AttributionLink\">\u2191<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteContainer\">\n<div class=\"quote\">You mean those health <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/insurance-calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\"KWMLlink KWMListener\" data-kwm=\"3\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance<\/a> premiums that make a guy play the game of Risk?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy that my family of 5 through the 00&#8217;s and early teens could afford a private policy for 350$ a month.<\/p>\n<p>Now, late 40&#8217;s, and the cheapest premiums worth buying for just me are over 20k$ a year, for coverage not even half as good as I had before.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click to expand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>I think he more means the quality. Cost or not america does have some of the best health care in the world. Not the cheapest by any means but very very good.<\/p>\n<p>As for health <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/insurance-calculator\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" class=\"KWMLlink KWMListener\" data-kwm=\"3\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance<\/a>. This is what happens when you let big pharma run amok, put gotta pass em to see em style laws and allow or require people not paying into the system to be covered in full mixed with multi million dollar lawsuits over any even minor medical mistake.<\/p>\n<p>As for the organs overseas. Id be worried the kidney i got may not have been volentarially donated. It would be one thing to get a prisioners organ. Dont think id feel too bad seeing jack the ripper broken down for parts. But id be worried in nigera a dude who borrowed money to feed his family got broken down for parts&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/american-patients-coming-to-nigeria-for-kidney-transplants.2520452\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Road Skateboard said: \u2191 You mean those health insurance premiums that make a guy play the game of Risk? It&#8217;s crazy that my family of 5 through the 00&#8217;s and early teens could afford a private policy for 350$ a month. Now, late 40&#8217;s, and the cheapest premiums worth buying for just me are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}