A recap of our efforts to secure health insurance and cell service.
Cell phone store 1: Hello. We want a plan for our cell phones with data. With data. Data? Data, umm with internet?
Cell phone store 2: Hello. We want a plan for our cell phones with internet. No we don't have a national ID number.
Cell phone store 3: Hello. We want a plan for our cell phones with internet but we don't have a national ID number.
Cell phone store 4: We're foreigners. We want a plan for our cell phones with internet. No we don't have a national ID number, we're foreigners.
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Cell phone store 10: We're foreigners. Can we use our phones in this country?
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Health insurance agent 1: Hello. We're foreigners. Can we have medical care?
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Comprehensive health insurance, it turns out, is easy to come by (for a mere $125 per month). But to get comprehensive cell phone service (for a reasonable $40 per month), you need to master a crazy litany of Spanish vocab, waste some shoe leather, and most importantly, find an agent who doesn't believe foreigners are automatically disqualified from using a 3G network.
- Steph
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