If you’re American and reading this, you deserve to know that she didn’t even have to present an insurance card at these visits, or hand over a forty-dollar co-pay. (If you’re British and don’t know what a co-pay is, remain blissful in your ignorance.) Nor did she receive a bill for it a month later. (She did, however, have to genuflect to busts of Marx and Lenin and hiss at a small American flag.)
