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a mysterious cloak
Apr 5, 2003

Leave me alone, dad, I'm with my friends!


Tax, you're basically a cyborg now, can't you just do some Terminator style time travel and get money (gently caress bitches) /the cure?

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Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
lmao that Ron Paul video on page 2, jesus christ

"So should we just let him die?"

*multiple people yell YES!*

Sorryformybadjokes
Apr 21, 2004

I identify as a simian who pronounces the 'silent' letters in words.
Fallen Rib
You may not have socialized healthcare but you do have... you DO have the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017

Its pretty funny how america went from the march of dimes to "curing diseases is economically infeasible" in like a single generation

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
America is broken. :d2a:

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I don’t trust you, please exclude me. drat this other poo poo costs too much and that is your fault somehow. America.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

Call Your Grandma posted:

Ms. Doubtfire except instead of trying to see your children you cozy up to some pharmaceutical CEO and then one day you get them drunk and they sign a contract that gives you a waiver for free medicine in perpetuity (make sure their children accidentally walk in on you peeing, this is a v. important step).

e: plan 2 is to have a baby and (find a doctor who is willing to go along with your plan) tell a newspaper that it is very sick but the doctors want to kill it and then make a kickstarter so you can get experimental therapy in Italy. Pocket the money and then dumpster baby. I guess you don't even need a sick mom for this plan.

plan 3: thoughts and prayers.

Powerful plans, opp read this

Otto Von Jizzmark
Dec 27, 2004
I dont mind the health care system. You take out some of your pretax paycheck for an HSA. Even with a 3000$ deductable or whatever your better off than one of those liberal soyboy european countries and their high taxes.

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BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy

Otto Von Jizzmark posted:

I dont mind the health care system. You take out some of your pretax paycheck for an HSA. Even with a 3000$ deductable or whatever your better off than one of those liberal soyboy european countries and their high taxes.
obvious bait but WHO data indicates americans are in fact worse off than all of those liberal soyboy european countries and parts of asia and even some latin american countries

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

Otto Von Jizzmark posted:

I dont mind the health care system. You take out some of your pretax paycheck for an HSA. Even with a 3000$ deductable or whatever your better off than one of those liberal soyboy european countries and their high taxes.

Itt I learned you don't know what coinsurance means

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Burt Sexual posted:

What really burns me about drug advertising budgets is that they weren't even allowed to market directly to consumers (e.g. TV) until 1983 I guess. So then they were allowed to trick people into 'ask your doctor about' poo poo, when instead they could take a tiny percentage of the blanket the airwaves cash they spend and just educate Doctors, you know the ones that actually decide to prescribe something. I mean they still do that today through kickbacks and poo poo I guess, but Joe Six pack shouldn't be suggesting treatment courses to his doctor.

The doctors changed the rules to ban a lot of the marketing to doctors like free food and trips and stuff. So now they spend that money on administrators, insurance execs, and the public

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

DogonCrook posted:

Drug companies will waive the cost if you ask, there is no way in hell they want to be on the news killing an old lady and its tax writeoff anyways.

Definitely this, though. Mention the fact that you own a pioneering social media site too

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]

BloodRed posted:

You may not have socialized healthcare but you do have... you DO have the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II



These cost around $94 million per unit so my rough guesstimate is that if we took one of these babies to a pawn shop or something, Richard could pay for his Mom's medicine for 3,760 years.

jimmyjams
Jan 10, 2001


King Kong of Megadongs
Gobblin' them mega schlongs
Makin' sure they mega long
Stroke' 'em if they mega strong

Former DILF posted:

Its pretty funny how america went from the march of dimes to "curing diseases is economically infeasible" in like a single generation

weird. its almost as if capitalism was only pretending to be good because of the threat of communism and wasted no time dragging the country back into the gilded ages once the soviet union collapsed

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Otto Von Jizzmark posted:

I dont mind the health care system. You take out some of your pretax paycheck for an HSA. Even with a 3000$ deductable or whatever your better off than one of those liberal soyboy european countries and their high taxes.

Literally the second troll post in the LowTax mom thread is destitute bc of the us healthcare system.

lidnsya
Nov 14, 2007
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-lidnsya.jpg"><br>All aboard the sleepy train!
I'm very sorry to hear about your mother, and all of the other struggles you've been going through recently. I hope things will turn around, I really hope you can find a way for your mom to get the treatments.

The US health system is so horrifically hosed. Anyone who opposes UHC is complicit in murder, imo.

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe
Lowrax, come back to thread and give me med names.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
you must know some famous celebrity goons Lowtax. just blackmail them into giving you the money or you will expose their post history

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Otto Von Jizzmark posted:

I dont mind the health care system. You take out some of your pretax paycheck for an HSA. Even with a 3000$ deductable or whatever your better off than one of those liberal soyboy european countries and their high taxes.
I am sure, of course, that your luck will at no point change, and you will never see the downside here; and if you do, you will surely have the virtue and grit to persevere and succeed, unlike your inferiors.

Of course.

Anyway goondolences, Lowtax, this is awful on many levels :(

DogonCrook
Apr 24, 2016

I think my 20 years as hurricane chaser might be a little relevant ive been through more hurricanws than moat shiitty newscasters
Insurance doesnt mean poo poo. Get yourself some serious trauma you go to the nearest equipped and your insurance will not cover it. You will wake up to million dollar hospital bills and theres gently caress all you can do about it but use bankruptcy as a loving dead mans switch in a hostile negotiation on a bill thats 300 loving pages long. Lol at the loving hubris you think this system will not gently caress you totally before you die. Haha.

Otto Von Jizzmark
Dec 27, 2004

Nessus posted:

I am sure, of course, that your luck will at no point change, and you will never see the downside here; and if you do, you will surely have the virtue and grit to persevere and succeed, unlike your inferiors.

Of course.

Anyway goondolences, Lowtax, this is awful on many levels :(

The jokes on you my good chump. My wife and by extension kids are canadian. If by your logic i become one of the poor i can just move to canada and get a free ride.

Lauroon Kyanka
Sep 17, 2017

*trips on a ladybug*

*dies of old age*
don't tell your mom where the money came from. problem solved.

NarwhalParty
Jul 23, 2010
Every time that single payer healthcare starts to gain some traction here, a news story like Alfie in the UK comes out and people swear that the government will set up death panels to kill everyone.

jenny jones fan
Dec 24, 2007
Lowtax have you considered Ben Shapiro's take on health care?

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/817546801410555904?s=19
https://mobile.twitter.com/benshapiro/status/817968543211790336

Nessus
Dec 22, 2003

After a Speaker vote, you may be entitled to a valuable coupon or voucher!



Otto Von Jizzmark posted:

The jokes on you my good chump. My wife and by extension kids are canadian. If by your logic i become one of the poor i can just move to canada and get a free ride.
Oh you misunderstand me my good fellow! I hope you are never visited by a serious complex injury or illness, or that if you are, you are able to demonstrate your status as one of God's elect and overcome it through your many virtues.

Just remember: You only have to screw up once.

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Rutibex posted:

you must know some famous celebrity goons Lowtax. just blackmail them into giving you the money or you will expose their post history

threaten to expose jeb Lund’s history of helldumping and saying the fag word unless he cuts you in on that sweet sweet [squints at a cue card for 5 minutes] “formerly news blogging, currently tweeting 16 hours a day and hosting a podcast” money.

Percelus
Sep 9, 2012

My command, your wish is


won't somebody think of his poor doctor wife who will be forced to work at gunpoint without pay like doctors in all the other first nations

nyt writes puff pieces on this turdlet

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
At this stage in the game it's not worth arguing with people who equate human lives to pieces of furniture. They should just be kicked in the balls repeatedly.

NihilismNow
Aug 31, 2003

NarwhalParty posted:

Every time that single payer healthcare starts to gain some traction here, a news story like Alfie in the UK comes out and people swear that the government will set up death panels to kill everyone.

As opposed to the hospital just billing your several thousand per day for his care and you have to pull the plug yourself because you ran out of money?

Zeluth
May 12, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
.

Zeluth fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Jun 12, 2018

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

sure some folks will die because they didnt have enough cash.

but since we dont have some dirty communism healthcare, all our citizens enjoy wealth and riches instead...shitholes like Scandinavia could only dream of the kind of individual wealth us americans have

Fartbox
Apr 27, 2017
What's happening? Dri fu an only two? what is this?
Is this an avatar? I don't know rm dunk

Sometimes you have to sacrifice a few mothers in order for companies to get richer. It is extremely important that these companies make insane amounts of money, to ensure that rich people get richer

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR

Love Rat posted:

It's really only a matter of time before a person broken by the system or a political radical/extremist puts 2 and 2 together and realizes this mass shooting thing could be just the ticket. It's not a matter if, it's a matter of when mass shootings become the de facto political tool of the suicidal and deranged. Yes, it's already happened. Expect it to become far more frequent and much more targeted.

all we can do is pray that these people don't shift the focus of their rage to the insurance and pharma ceos and learn to meditate peacefully instead

Robo Captain
Sep 28, 2013
My brother has an arthritis and the government pays 20k a year for his medication to manage it. He wouldn't die without it but they pay for it anyway.

Sorry your country is so hosed.

wildmamboqueen
May 31, 2001

mad about the mage
The Great Twist
Find a teaching hospital that will treat her for free. Maybe not in the USA. Seriously, a rare form of disease, doctors want to deal with that. Do not throw her to the wolves.

COMRADES
Apr 3, 2017

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
It's okay, Jeff Bezos makes like $9 mil a minute so you see? One day you can too!

Serotonin
Jul 14, 2001

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of *blank*

NarwhalParty posted:

Every time that single payer healthcare starts to gain some traction here, a news story like Alfie in the UK comes out and people swear that the government will set up death panels to kill everyone.

Total coincidence of course.

comedyblissoption
Mar 15, 2006

death panels to deny healthcare is okay as long as it's privatized and for-profit

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Robo Captain posted:

My brother has an arthritis and the government pays 20k a year for his medication to manage it. He wouldn't die without it but they pay for it anyway.

Sorry your country is so hosed.

Yeah and that same treatment would only cost taxpayers 1000% more than it currently does when Obamacare is implemented. That poo poo is not socialized medicine, it’s an unregulated legal monopoly for Merck and the manufacturers of aids.

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Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
have your mother fly to germany, throw away her ID, then claim to be a Syrian refugee

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