Guy gets himself arrested for healthcare
http://www.41nbc.com/news/national-n...il-health-care
Guy walks into a bank, hands them a note demanding $1, then sits in the lobby waiting for the police to arrive. He did it because he has a couple of slipped discs, and various other medical problems and the US doesn't give a shit about their own. This is the sort of thing we should be fucking ashamed of. He is playing the system and I am sure a few of you will start yelling about it, but the real travesty is that he has to. The entire civilized world has governments that exist to protect the citizenry, except the USA. There the govt is there to protect business. Healthcare is a business, and national health care is nowhere near as profitable as a private system. So fuck poor people. |
You done did it now... here come :drama:
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I'll ignore most of the (willfully?) ignorant trolling rant in the OP and talk about the article linked.
Originally Posted by that article
Verone is hoping for a three year sentence.
He'd then be able to collect social security when he got out, and says he'd head for the beach. "I've already looked at a condominium. I've spoken to a realtor, on Myrtle Beach," he says. It does seem to say that he believes he will have enough money coming in from Social Security to pay for beachfront living, though. There are lots of things wrong with American health care but there are more things right with it. It needs a revamp, not a complete takeover. |
Coming from a man who pays $240/month for awesome healthcare, and a father who's slowly dying on the state's dime...I bet he and my father wish the had a healthcare policy.
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I heard it was $1,000,000.
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There have been a lot of blog posts circulated around about this. Apparently people have done some snooping and it was found it he has a few local options that would have provided him with free health care. He was not signed up for any of them.
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Originally Posted by shuiend
(Post 742294)
There have been a lot of blog posts circulated around about this. Apparently people have done some snooping and it was found it he has a few local options that would have provided him with free health care. He was not signed up for any of them.
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Originally Posted by Blaize
(Post 742280)
http://www.41nbc.com/news/national-n...il-health-care
Guy walks into a bank, hands them a note demanding $1, then sits in the lobby waiting for the police to arrive. He did it because he has a couple of slipped discs, and various other medical problems and the US doesn't give a shit about their own. This is the sort of thing we should be fucking ashamed of. He is playing the system and I am sure a few of you will start yelling about it, but the real travesty is that he has to. The entire civilized world has governments that exist to protect the citizenry, except the USA. There the govt is there to protect business. Healthcare is a business, and national health care is nowhere near as profitable as a private system. So fuck poor people. I'd go into this further, but i have SC2 to play. and its my birthday. not a bad system if this is an extreme case and happens quite un-often. |
HBD Brainey:D
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So... I just figured out total cost of my employer-provided health insurance (employer + employee portions). In Germany (a nation often lauded as a compromise between the British and US systems), I believe I would have to pay something like 15% of my AGI towards the public insurance fund. I currently pay less than 7%.
I'm not saying that is right or wrong, just a data point. I had not calculated that previously. I wonder how many Americans are even aware what portion of their health insurance they pay or what amount (on an absolute basis) their employers do. |
taxes as percent of GDP is 35% in Canada. it's 25% in USA. factor in private healthcare costs and it's 35%...
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Lazy fuck could work 30hrs a week at the Waffle House and be eligible for really good health insurance. As a company, they have fantastic healthcare benefits. Many of the rough looking folks that work there stay for so many years for the health benefits for themselves and their children. And yes, they have a dental plan...
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US Healthcare trivia:
Here's an interesting article about the healthcare system in France: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124958049241511735.html here's one interesting quote from it: "For instance, in France, people with long-term diseases get 100% coverage (similar to, say, Medicare for patients with end-stage kidney diseases). The government proposed trimming coverage not directly related to a patient's primary illness -- a sore throat for someone with diabetes, for example. The proposal created such public outcry that French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot later said the 100% coverage rule was "set in stone." Proposing rationing to cut costs of a failing system?! who would have thought. |
What about healthcare and medicare/medicaid fraud? I too often see individuals with bullshit injuries that attend these pain management facilities and said facilities charge about $2k per week for 30 minute daily massage therapy.
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yep. hurts the system. Wouldn't happen if healthcare was truely in a free market.
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B..b.b.b...bb..bbut, the free market is evil! Evil capitalist pigs are driven by profit! The gov't must keep them in line!
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Originally Posted by JasonC SBB
(Post 742509)
The gov't must keep them in line!
yep. Like this: GPs ordered to ration cancer scans Family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save money. They are being told to slash the number they refer to hospital for tests including ultrasounds, MRIs and CT scans commonly used to spot tumours. Last night experts warned the cost-saving measures increased the risk of patients being diagnosed too late and dying unnecessarily. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...#ixzz1XNEoen4P |
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Coming from a guy whos country banned guns then had it ravaged by assholes because the citizens could not defend themselves. More government equals better clearly. Brainey put some awesome facts on the table which are true. Where has socialized medicine saved anyone? My father-in-law is an anethisist at a hospital in a small town in TN. He constantly gives certain surgeries to canadians that fly a small assed hospital in East TN that have to pay for it out of their pockets because the government is to cheap and won't give them what they need. |
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