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[lurch70]

 

[NAD]

i don't know what to talk to NAD about ... much like an old flame I would bump into at the mall.

Wait, dorian drives a Volvo? I want one of the Twilight ones. In sparkle faggot finish of course.

 

[dorian gray]

I have a rainbow sticker on mine

 

[NAD]

Pretty sexy. Can I fuck it? The sticker, not the car. Sicko.

 

[dorian gray]

of course

 

[Thanatopsis123]

America used to be a country that others emulated. Now when I describe various aspects to people here I'm disheartened to hear the responses.

Here are actual reactions:
Heath care - "Why? Just....why? That doesn't make sense." "I never want to go to a hospital in the U.S.!"
Education - "Wow. Why did we base our education system on YOURS?"
Religion - "Are we talking about modern day people here?"

 

[Krilons Resa]

yea, we kinda got stuck in our ways and stagnated, didnt we?

 

[dorian gray]

America used to be a country that others emulated. Now when I describe various aspects to people here I'm disheartened to hear the responses.

Here are actual reactions:
Heath care - "Why? Just....why? That doesn't make sense." "I never want to go to a hospital in the U.S.!"
Education - "Wow. Why did we base our education system on YOURS?"
Religion - "Are we talking about modern day people here?"

Well said. It's embarrassing.

 

[einride]

i would actually never ever set foot in the usa because of the healthcare situation and the risks involved, and i'm pretty sure i'm not alone in this



(unless someone else had paid for some kind of 100% full coverage health insurance, i guess, but even then i would be very hesitant to subject myself to being treated like a potential criminal just by entering the country)

 

[dorian gray]

ehh....I can assure all of you that actual health care in the United States is the best in the world. It's the system that's a joke. Middle-men insurance companies who care only about profits for their share-holders? And they have a say in what treatments are appropriate? Absolutely RIDICULOUS. And meanwhile, the Republican party does everything they can to put an end to any kind of reform. Do you have a pre-existing condition? Or are you still on your parent's insurance? Yes? Thank President Obama. But enjoy it while it lasts because the Republicans are about to snatch it away.

 

[NAD]

I hate them god damn suits. Fuck those assholes.

<-- gonna be wearing a suit for some function tonight

 

[lurch70]

my mother was in a few weeks ago for literally 2-3 hours for a small non surgical heart procedure.
hospital billed her insurance company $28,000 !!!

 

[NAD]

Grammaw died a few weeks ago and hospice was amazing, I have nothing but respect for all of those awesome people. Unfortunately a week or so before moving on to the great wild whatever she broke her hip and had to go to the hospital. I believe it was the second time she had been to an actual hospital since giving birth to my mom 60 years prior. Even when she broke her ankle about 5 years ago she said "nah, it'll heal by itself" and it DID. Tough ol' bird. So anyhow, there was no operation for her hip because at 92 and dying of cancer, I mean really, why bother trying to push her into surgery that she just smiled and said "no thanks" to? But she stayed the night before going home for the final hospice run anyhow. A few weeks later we go the hospital bill, paid for by insurance, but still:

One day. Some morphine. And a CT scan.

$15,000 WTF.

 

[lurch70]

sorry about your gramma!

those bills though I understand that in the end the insurance companies only pay a fraction of those out and all invoices are "negotiated" ... that's why they have these astronomical figures on them?!?!?

Gaylord Focker; care to chime in?

 

[NAD]

Thanks yo. I'll always miss her but I enjoyed nearly 33 years with her in my life, so I'm very thankful for that. I'm not a huge family person but honestly I think that's because Ma and Grammaw set the bar too high. They are/were too awesome, so that's all I've needed in my adult life. That being said I'm trying to get better about spending more time with my blood these days, even Pa and I have become pretty good friends in recent years WTF.

I'm not even really paying attention to the Supreme Court stuff right now. Even though I liked the Obama plan it was still rigged in favoUr of the insurance companies, so really, nothing much changed. Well, there were some changes toward the better, but it's not like when it passed I thought YAY THE SYSTEM IS NOW GOOD because, well, it's not. A step in the right direction, a step possibly taken away before most of it can even get started.

I used to love America. Then for awhile I hated it. But now, I'm stuck somewhere in between. I'm disappointed, and that's probably the worst emotional feeling yet.

 

[lurch70]

i hear you .... you can just tell that nobody has a solid answer, solution or plan for the future. all the "decision makers" are throwing shit at a wall.

self reliance is the only answer.

 

[NAD]

Seriously, hoping for and planning on good health is the best way to go. And if/when that fails, we're moving to Canada.

 

[dorian gray]

...already working on a plan to do just that. Not for health care...just because America is full of dumb redneck "conservatives" who care more about men having buttsecks than anything else

 

[einride]

ehh....I can assure all of you that actual health care in the United States is the best in the world

throw an "among the" in there somewhere and yeah sure, that's not the problem, the problem is indeed that i could not afford to pay for even an ambulance if something happened to me uninsured

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011...-have-insurance-dont-take-me-to-the-hospital/

this shit is insane and should not be happening in a civilized country ever

 

[dorian gray]

We had to buy one of the kids a nebulizer mask for her asthma recently. The bill just for a tiny little piece of plastic was something like $180. The wife was like wtf and called the company we got it from. She said she was not going to pay that much for it and what were they going to do about it. They were like, "ok, well, how about $40?" hahahaha Wife asked them why they charged $180 in the first place and they said: "because thats what the government allows us to charge". The price of health care has nothing do with real economic forces.