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The Ambulances in China Are Free for Everyone

Universal healthcare is everywhere — but the US of A

Toni Crowe
Age of Empathy
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4 min readJan 22, 2025

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TikTok refugees are interfacing directly with the Chinese people via a social media app named “The Little Red Book, aka RedNote.” RedNote is the Chinese version of TikTok because TikTok is also banned in China. The lifestyles of the Chinese people shocked many Americans. Chinese lifestyles do not match what our government has sold us for years.

My mom would tell me to eat my food because the people in China were starving. She would say that the children there would be glad to eat that butternut squash I thought was weirdly shaped, with a strange texture, and not tasty. That is not true anymore, if it ever was.

I know a woman who received an $11,000 bill for an ambulance ride to a hospital within 10 miles of her home. My one and only ambulance ride cost $3,600.

No one gets a bill for healthcare in China because the Chinese, like all modern nations except the United States of America, have universal healthcare for their citizens.

That includes our allies, France, the UK, Spain, and our border neighbors, Canada and Mexico. It also includes our enemies, Russia and North Korea. In fact, the North Korean constitution…

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Toni Crowe
Toni Crowe

Written by Toni Crowe

Sharing the hard lessons I've learned in life. Best-selling author. Humorist. Editor. Writing whatever interests me . Owner: No Air. Editor:MuddyUm.

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