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I've always wondered if tourism/traveling to the USA was hindered by the USA's health care system. "Not interested in visiting San Francisco, honey. What if I trip and break my leg?". Not that the US really cares about tourism, though. I still always wondered.
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Phoon posted:america is hilarious
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Nov 19, 2014 18:54
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And don't come back! 
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Melmac posted:I've always wondered if tourism/traveling to the USA was hindered by the USA's health care system. "Not interested in visiting San Francisco, honey. What if I trip and break my leg?". Travel insurance is cheap as gently caress and you are covered for a lot
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Nov 19, 2014 18:56
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You just say you don't have a job and no income / money and file for Medicaid while on the hospital bed then it's free ezpz
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Nov 19, 2014 18:56
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I have a good story that relates to this: When my wife and I were trying to get pregnant, she would often suggest getting supplemental insurance. I would argue that we already had a Cadillac (really good) policy, but she just put her foot down and won the debate. A few months pass, and we find out she's pregnant. With triplets. And a fibroid (benign tumor) in her uterus literally the size of a basketball. One of the triplets got absorbed early on, but the remaining two twins grew around the tumor. She was hospitalized for pain for about 6 weeks, then gave birth two months early. Adding up neonatal intensive care costs, and all the hospital visits, the bill came to over $2 million dollars. Our policy paid for all of it but $5k. When you throw in the money she made from supplemental insurance (about $11k), we actually made money off our policies. Obviously we didn't profit because we still lost money from her missing work, but still. We now have two beautiful healthy two-year-old boys and zero debt.
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Nov 19, 2014 18:58
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Drunk Nerds posted:
I wonder which one is the alpha that absorbed the beta missing one
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Nov 19, 2014 19:00
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Drunk Nerds posted:I have a good story that relates to this: good binding of issac fan fic here.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:01
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mookface posted:Travel insurance is cheap as gently caress and you are covered for a lot "A lot" doesn't seem to cover giving birth though. 
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Nov 19, 2014 19:03
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What's so expensive about delivering a baby anyway? All you need is a $10 plunger from the hardware store and a bottle of whiskey and you're good to go.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:07
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going on vacation while preggers is probably kinda dumb unless you are like trying to give birth and make your kid a foreign national
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Nov 19, 2014 19:08
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DeusExMachinima posted:http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/million-dollar-baby-canadians-handed-1m-bill-after-woman-gives-birth-in-u-s-1.2107020  @ the comments section.  Reminder that this woman was 6 months pregnant, not 8 or 9 months.  This country is in the shitter because someone who bought health insurance while traveling to the US 3 months before their due date wants the birth covered. What ever happened to personal responsibility?
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BigwigML posted:What's so expensive about delivering a baby anyway? All you need is a $10 plunger from the hardware store and a bottle of whiskey and you're good to go. president carter was the first president born in a hospital. just go back to using bath tubs or someone post the picture of the family in the hot tub the lady gave birth in.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:08
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numberoneposter posted:going on vacation while preggers is probably kinda dumb unless you are like trying to give birth and make your kid a foreign national It was 3 months before her due date.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:09
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For Profit Healthcare? WHAT A JOKE
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Nov 19, 2014 19:12
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Top City Homo posted:For Profit Healthcare? Actually Blue Cross is a non-profit health insurance provider and they are not publically traded on the stock market Like Wellpoint, Cigna, and Humana are. 
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Nov 19, 2014 19:13
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Baba Ganoush posted:I wonder which one is the alpha that absorbed the beta missing one One came out yoked as gently caress. Can do chin ups and stuff now at one years old. The twins never have to fight about who my favorite kid is: The one that got absorbed so we didn't have to raise triplets will forever be my pick. Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Nov 19, 2014 19:13
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Melmac posted:It was 3 months before her due date.
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mookface posted:They'll end up having to pay for it. They had a doctor ok her for travel and pacific blue cross knew about the pregnancy they're just scumbags seriousposting in gbs for a sec here but yeah they'll prob have to pay out if they fight it in court its just a question of putting the money up front for a lawyer and not suiciding over the legalese court case poo poo still probably easier to just suck the ceo's cock imho
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This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!
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Your Rain posted:Which law degree does Somethingawful suggest for reading the insurance information when entering the USA? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usmvYOPfco&t=63s
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Drunk Nerds posted:One came out yoked as gently caress. Can do chin ups and stuff now at one years old. Thatd be pretty wild to have to boys the exact same age. Are they pretty solid bros to the end who have each other's back no matter what?
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Nov 19, 2014 19:15
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has anyone said the insurance company was completely in the right? because they were foreigners coming over on "temporary" insurance policies constitute over 70% of the medical bills paid out by insurance companies in the US, this is a fact
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Nov 19, 2014 19:15
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Old Dirty Cumburgs posted:I mean, what's your child worth to you, I guess. Six grand, tops. Anybody who says more is lying.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:16
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mookface posted:Thatd be pretty wild to have to boys the exact same age. Are they pretty solid bros to the end who have each other's back no matter what? pretty sure this was a van damme movie and a jackie chan movie.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:16
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mookface posted:Thatd be pretty wild to have to boys the exact same age. Are they pretty solid bros to the end who have each other's back no matter what? They're total bff buds, but the yoked one is kind of a bully. They are both hellbent on destroying everything they see and breaking every rule. Is that normal?
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Nov 19, 2014 19:16
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Drunk Nerds posted:They're total bff buds, but the yoked one is kind of a bully. They are both hellbent on destroying everything they see and breaking every rule. Is that normal? loose cannon cops who break all the rules?
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Nov 19, 2014 19:18
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Drunk Nerds posted:They're total bff buds, but the yoked one is kind of a bully. They are both hellbent on destroying everything they see and breaking every rule. Is that normal? Oh yeah. My sons are right close together too and they have dedicated their young lives to destruction.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:18
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mookface posted:Oh yeah. My sons are right close together too and they have dedicated their young lives to destruction. Okay good. We have literally no furniture in our living room because they will drag it to climb up on the mantle, or over the gates, or just jump in the air and hit the floor face first.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:21
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BEAR GRYLLZ posted:foreigners coming over on "temporary" insurance policies constitute over 70% of the medical bills paid out by insurance companies in the US, this is a fact Is there a source for this, because that's pretty heavy, man?
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Nov 19, 2014 19:28
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Drunk Nerds posted:I have a good story that relates to this: Your wife must be a disgusting fat to not notice a basketball sized tumor, which blob'ed on one of your spawn.
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Nov 19, 2014 19:30
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BEAR GRYLLZ posted:has anyone said the insurance company was completely in the right? because they were paying out is unprofitable so im pretty convinced they've worked out a way to pay back gently caress all like 90% of the time so nbd
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Nov 19, 2014 19:30
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Nov 19, 2014 19:38
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I dont get why its funny
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pro tip: never come to america, it's a bad country
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Nov 19, 2014 19:45
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send this canuck back to the frozen north with a little hat that says 'STONED & OWNED IN KUAI'
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I don't want to be controversial but charging people $1m for a medical problem seems hosed up!!!!
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hemale in pain posted:I don't want to be controversial but charging people $1m for a medical problem seems hosed up!!!!
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Nov 19, 2014 19:52
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it's a good thing she had the choice between being charged for medical aid or choosing to die and not pay a bill
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Tricky D posted:It's just price gouging the foreigner. Standard business practices. Go USA! She shoulda haggled the poo poo down to like 400k
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doctor 7 posted:Jesus Christ America how lovely and bloated can your health care system be that it takes 1 million loving dollars to delivery a baby my god It wasn't just "deliver a baby" though. The woman took up a hospital bed for six weeks, nurses/doctors and medical attention during that time, plus the birth itself - all that poo poo adds up. This isn't just an America thing. You'd be nuts to travel anywhere overseas without adequate travel/sickness insurance. The bills add up for foreigners reeeeeal quick.
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