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PPACA is the wet fart we got after years of straining to pass healthcare reform wooo great job everyone; champagne all around on this monumental occasion!! next on the docket is income inequality my fellow americans it was a long fight but we have passed legislation that grants you all a $20 gift card at Walmart; God Bless America! Monkey Fracas fucked around with this message at 22:03 on Sep 30, 2014 |
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plain blue jacket posted:MRIs cost a fortune. They require highly trained technicians the machine itself is often worth millions. interpreting the images is hard, it's not hard to tell people to lie still, put on some kenny g and flip a switch
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I have like $45,000 in bills. $2,500 for an ER visit when I was having an asthma attack, the rest is from a stay in the psych ward for a week. I'm never going to be able to pay that poo poo back 
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Cuniculous posted:the rest is from a stay in the psych ward for a week.
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The only thing you need to know about American health care is that there is a very popular show in which a man decides to sell industrial quantities of meth to pay for his cancer treatment.
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Man that is nothing. you should see how much money we spend on mostly dead people. Check out how much an ICU stay can cost. Mechanical ventilation alone is like 5k/day.
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Zzulu posted:Explain yourselves immediately, americans oooh i got this! a large portion of americans don't want free/affordable healthcare because those countries that have free/affordable healthcare have lovely doctors because who wants to work for free?
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Monkey Fracas posted:Prooouueeed to be an americuuuuun Some people will argue your point and say "Well Monkey Fracas, it's your fault for tripping down the stairs while being uninsured". And then you can link them to stories like this http://www.channel3000.com/news/woman-taken-to-wrong-hospital-faces-bankruptcy/29648000 So, just a quick reminder that even those who have health insurance in America, are still facing financial ruin because while they were unconscious, they weren't able to tell the ambulance driver which hospital to take them to so the procedure would be covered. 
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Melmac posted:Some people will argue your point and say "Well Monkey Fracas, it's your fault for tripping down the stairs while being uninsured".
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I think its good Americans are dying.
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revoke thu jewry
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Len posted:oooh i got this! a large portion of americans don't want free/affordable healthcare because those countries that have free/affordable healthcare have lovely doctors because who wants to work for free? You got us there. Our doctors are actually slaves. Some have been kidnapped and their families held hostage. Theres actually an officially legal jobmarket for capturing slavedocs from around the globe. You didnt hear that from me. P.S. Are you a doctor?
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Hi I have coverage through ACA and its pretty poo poo. I'm a full time student and my wife made about $46.5k this year which is enough to make me ineligible for subsidies. I am a healthy 35 year old white male and my monthly premium is $241. In exchange for this I get a plan that has a $6300 deductible and pays absolutely nothing, not even annual routine care, until I hit that deductible. I'm pretty sure ACA was supposed to mandate insurers cover at least an annual office visit but unless I am completely misunderstanding my schedule of benefits (possible) that is not the case. Meanwhile I have had a hosed up hip inflammation for about three weeks now that really just needs a couple weeks of high dose NSAIDs to clear up but since I can't afford the office visit or the prescriptions I'm just sort of hobbling around and taking Aleve and hoping it goes away on its own. merica
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Europe, please ask your leaders to expel American military forces so we can pay for our healthcare tia
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VikingSkull posted:Europe, please ask your leaders to expel American military forces so we can pay for our healthcare tia It's not the cost to the taxpayer that's the problem. We're already like #2 in the world in federal healthcare spending per capita because the current system inflates cost to the taxpayer.
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Is it common to do a head CT scan when delivering babies in the US?
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that ACA sure was a landmark achievement and a legacy i would want to leave as a president of the united states definitely not an aggressive blowjob to the insurance companies, definitely not, nope We just can't catch up to the rest of the first world in medical care! *shrugs shoulders; laughtrack*
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I had to get my appendix removed a couple of months ago, i paid all of 20 bucks for the whole thing and 15 of those bucks were spent on the day i stayed in hospital. Sucks to be you America.
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OlmanRiver posted:Do you actually haggle with the doctor? Like do you go buy a big fake mustache and walk up to him and say "Want make Deal?" That's a myth. you don't actually need a mustache in order to haggle effectively, in fact you can learn to haggle without wearing any facial hair at all.
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freedom ISNT FREE
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BombiTheZombie posted:I had to get my appendix removed a couple of months ago, i paid all of 20 bucks for the whole thing and 15 of those bucks were spent on the day i stayed in hospital. Sucks to be you America. meh I have full coverage medical, dental and eye. I pay no premiums and have a thousand dollar deductible for the medical with no limit to coverage. All office visits for all three are free. I can choose any doctor or hospital I want. My daughter being born by c-section and a 7 day stay in a private room for my wife in the best hospital in the state three years ago didn't cost me a dime. I don't even have a college degree I just work for a medium-sized company where the owner actually cares about his employees.
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I (my employer) pays $450 a month for health insurance in america. I went to see a doctor for a physical/check up, who took my insurance, and i had to pay $50 for a 15 minute visit. He took my blood and sent it to a lab which didnt take my insurance, so they sent me a bill for $1500. This was almost a year ago and i've tried calling them and the doctor and have still never actually had the results of the blood test. I found out that the GP I went to also does plastic surgery and botox on the side, he has 2 websites, and very clearly does not give a gently caress about a scrub like me trying to find out if he's healthy or not and whenever i've called he's said to call back later to make an appointment and then not picked up. I'm basically just operating under the assumption that he cant be bothered telling me there's nothing wrong, and that if there were any issues he'd be able to make some money off me and would make the effort to speak to me. I've had like 3 encounters with american health care since moving here, 2 doctors in NYC and one in Miami. my employer pays over 5k a year for it and i've had to spend an extra 4k on it in nearly 3 years and on the whole the experience has been total poo poo and a waste of time in comparison to the NHS, the system is a joke. The only reason I still have insurance is so my life isn't ruined by someone else mounting the sidewalk and hitting me with their car. cubicle gangster fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Also, when i had my check up before the surgery a hot iranian doctor had her fingers up my rear end. Thankfully she didnt see my boner.
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would you get yelled at if you began pleasing yourself during a rectal examination im asking fo a friend
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just do it man, who knows maybe it will lead to a good time? #yolo
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The Taint Reaper posted:Devry graduates really have a high opinion of themselves it seems. pls share with us what it is you do that is so well respected and grown up, dude with the naked anime babes avatar
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i'll have insuracne for probably one more year so i'm thinking i should get the most out of it now, maybe i'll break my fingers and toes.
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Germany had universal health care since 1883. Laws to insure accidents at the work making you unable to work followed 1884. Disabled and pension insurance 1889. Healthcare is a goddamn civil right. FunkyFlashman fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Nov 12, 2014 |
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Nov 12, 2014 18:39
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I just got my lasik for 3200 bux  Suck it yuropoors
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FunkyFlashman posted:Germany had universal health care since 1883. Laws to insure accidents at the work making you unable to work followed 1884. Disabled and pension insurance 1889. okay why should healthy people care about people born sick, and how is it fair to make healthy people give money out of pocket for those people.
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There is an area in your brain. This area is ment to produce empathy towards others. Try stimulating it. May be you are just broken tho. edit, corrected empathie with empathy
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So basically 50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" was actually sound financial advice?
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FunkyFlashman posted:There is an area in your brain. This area is ment to produce empathie towards others. Try stimulating it. May be you are just broken tho. dunno american wages are too low to afford to pay the taxes needed to support such government programs, and most of our taxes get misappropriated, So most of us are concerned with keeping ourselves alive.
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TOILETLORD posted:dunno american wages are too low to afford to pay the taxes needed to support such government programs, and most of our taxes get misappropriated, So most of us are concerned with keeping ourselves alive. this is the stupidest thing i've ever read. anyway i hope you fuckin die
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in ten years america will be so riddled with disease and injury that even canada could just waltz in and take over. its all part of the master plan
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Fandyien posted:this is the stupidest thing i've ever read. anyway i hope you fuckin die sorry studies have shown i am unkillable.
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^^^--It is true he is. America is the world's biggest jail. We are all prisoners here of our own device.
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lol good ol' pennsylvania, refused obamacare
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Windows 98 posted:The only thing you need to know about American health care is that there is a very popular show in which a man decides to sell industrial quantities of meth to pay for his cancer treatment. which is of course ridiculous. meth isn't that lucrative!
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BottledBodhisvata posted:America is the world's biggest jail.
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