How many of you are familiar with the term,"medical tourism"? Most people use this phrase to describe a vacation where they will also have a medical procedure performed, either because the same procedure at home is too costly or not covered by insurance. In the case I'm writing about today, my wife went to Mexico to have dental work done that were it to be performed in this country would have cost us in excess of $15,000. Money I simply do not have, since the Great Recession scorched my business.
Obviously this much work required several trips across the border at the Tecate crossing, where the dentist we see has his office. Dr. Adame, and his family are three generations of dentists, all trained in American Universities such as Louisiana State University. As such their training is state of the art, and their staff, offices, and work are all emblematic of the highest possible professionalism in the dental field. In fact the vast majority of their patients are American retirees. Upon entering the border crossing for the final time this past Friday January the 27th just before noon, my wife experienced an encounter with a Border Patrol Agent that can only be characterized as disrespectful, hurtful, and down right humiliating.
As she approached the desk, the officer attending asked my wife the usual questions about why she went to Mexico, and asked to see what she was bringing back over the border with her. My wife, beautiful woman that she is merely smiled and said,"I have new teeth". At which point the reply from the Border Patrol Officer was, and I quote: "What did they do, put in a bunch of used teeth from a cadaver?"
My lovely wife was reduced to tears by this poor excuse for a man employed by our government.
A classic case of the trough feeder showing no respect for those who fill the trough from which he feeds. Our employee, showing us nothing but contempt for our inability to take advantage of the benefits of citizenship in this country that we provide for him. He gets medical, dental, and life insurance all at our expense. His pension plan will never be looked at as an "entitlement", because he's a high and mighty pseudo cop, with a badge, gun and bad attitude towards those who slop the trough for him and his family.
For every good cop, there's a bad one.
ReplyDeleteWe're all faced with the "Good, Bad, and the Ugly" when it comes to law enforcement in this country.
Some morons (like the one encountered by your wife)get away with their crap because no one is monitoring them, and a host of other reasons.
In my experience, when you find a bad cop, there's nothing more disturbing and likely to ruin your world. Bullies with badges. And worse.
I'm sorry your wife had to experience meeting one of those insensitive idiots in badges.