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Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:06 am Post subject:

Would I get assassinated by all them insurance companies and pharmaceuticals?
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Dave · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:08 am Post subject:

WHAAAAT!? Pfft! No!

You'd KILL them first for even considering it. Remember your platform? Or... or did you just say that line about your enemies just to get the vote? You ARE an ass-kicker, right?
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madcatmonkey · =^-^= Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 381

I support whatever health care reform would lead to me actually HAVING health care, rather than being, "Oh crap, there's something wrong with me and I can't afford to take care of it? Ok, just let me die, a funeral will be cheaper."

James · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:04 am Post subject:

yeah... but then you get shit like canada where you HAVE to schedule a doctor's appointment like months in advance... not to mention that if you are dyine on the weekends... you will end up dying....
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Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:05 am Post subject:

yino · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:11 am Post subject:

Well, down here we have both and there is a clear difference. What James say is absolutely true down here, except for the weekends stuff.
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Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:47 am Post subject:

Scheduling appointments, yeah, I can see that. Emergency care? Done and done.

I'd rather schedule months ahead than not schedule that bullshit at all. I could be bleeding out my peeper and I wouldn't go to the doc cuz I can't afford that shit.

Thus, the reason my dad got diagnosed so late.
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madcatmonkey · =^-^= Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 381

I'd say that still counts as not having health care, really. Just having it in name doesn't do you any good if it doesn't actually help you when you need it.

I just don't get it sometimes, you know? On this planet there's enough wealth and extravagance for the entire world to be taken care of. So why are so many people left to live in misery and die in pain?

... this is the kind of stuff I try not to think about, because it just depresses me and there's nothing I can actually do about it. Sigh.

Mike · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:08 am Post subject:

You can get help when you need it.

It's the shit that CAN wait that you have to wait for. Got a broken arm? fixed. Got a click in your ankle that poses no immediate threat? get in line.
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madcatmonkey · =^-^= Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 381

Oh, I was replying to James, actually. I hadn't seen what you posted yet. I definitely agree with what you said. I heard that was what it was like in Canada, emergency care available when needed, non-essential stuff can wait, and I thought that sounded like a fairly good way to do it. Much better than not being able to afford any care, even emergency care.

Rushing into the emergency room because you're in so much pain you're crying and it feels like something burst inside, that's bad enough. You don't need thousands of dollars in debt you can't pay off from the visit on top of it; that's just adding insult to injury, in my opinion.

Parsifal · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:25 am Post subject:

Sooo...we have any actual way of contacting Kara?...You know, say its all good and whatnot.
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Dave · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:44 am Post subject:

[MadCat] Tell me about it. I went to the ER a few years back thanks to a heart-palpatation coupled with a severe, and I mean SEVERE panic attack.

I waited like... 2 hours.

I was given a pill to calm me down and let me rest.

That pill cost me 900 dollars.

Yeah, shame that by the time I was seen the attack had more than subsided.

[Pars] It's been taken care of.
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madcatmonkey · =^-^= Joined: 19 Nov 2007 Posts: 381

That's awful, Dave. Sad

*huggles*

And yeah, that's exactly the kind of crap I think shouldn't be happening.

trebuchet · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

Parsifal · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:07 am Post subject:

"Alright Mr. Buchet, we've got a little problem...I hear you're manly. Very /Manly/.....But what I would like to know....<pulls up a X-Ray> Are you man enough for this!? <points to a big, craggy dot on the film> This, is a X-ray of your body. and that little dot is a stone....and by little I mean a full inch...in diameter.... Now I /could/ give you medicine to try and kill the pain...and I /could/ try and break it up a little using sound waves....hell, I could even have you unconscious as it happens....but that would be wussing out, wouldn't it? And you aren't a Wuss. Are you?...."
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