We should become more like Canada
POSTED BY: Hardware
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 06:15
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So maybe we should start putting credit card swipers in the ambulances. If you don't have a high enough credit limit (or can't prove you're really a "real" American), they just drive away and leave you on the street to die.
This IS what the GOP is advocating, after all. It's a REAL "death panel"; they just don't like to say it out loud. But make no mistake - this is exactly what they want.
It's part of their whole "pro-life" campaign platform. They get a kick out of ironic names, it seems. "Patriot" Act. "Homeland Security". "Fiscally responsible". "Compassionate conservative".
And the beat goes on...
Canadians should have to do what immigrants here have to do: move here and drop an anchor baby so they can load up on free healthcare. Hey, it worked for Schwarzeneggar!
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Geezer, I bet that's not something that Michael Moore would ever show in one of his documentaries about how perfect everyone else's healthcare is. :)
No one's system is perfect, they all have pros and cons. I'm pretty sure that if someone winds up in the emergency room here, for an injury or heart attack at least, they will not be turned away. In regards to brain differences though its a chore to get them to keep you for a bit, even if you're supposed to be in the country. I had some folk I told to go get help there last week and I called the next day to see how things were going for them and, sure enough, the hospital wouldn't take him even though he was in a bad way and willing. He wouldn't say he wanted to end it all so they turned him and her out. Errrrrrrg.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Where do you live, Rione?
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
So maybe we should start putting credit card swipers in the ambulances. If you don't have a high enough credit limit (or can't prove you're really a "real" American), they just drive away and leave you on the street to die.
Shit like that already happens, Mikey - leastways it did in Baltimore, and I know in Detroit.
HVA (local ambo service) demands proof of insurance before they do a goddamn thing, and you *WILL* recieve a bill for eight hundred bucks just for them showing up, even if YOU weren't the one who called em, like if someone sees you injured or sick and calls it in.
Why, exactly, do you think when I was layin on the floor riding the edge of death, I crawled to a table, dragged myself up, and staggered to the car, then drove myself to the clinic - rather than do the supposedly-sensible thing ?
The sheer inhumanity of our "health care" system is fuckin revolting, you ask me.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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"We should become more like Canada"
Yes, we should. But with lots and lots of money being thrown towards the military and the very rich and powerful, and there not being enuf left over for education, infrastructure, health care and wages, we are becoming more like Mexico.
Sorry for the diversion.
Carry on.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
"We should become more like Canada"
Yes, we should. But with lots and lots of money being thrown towards the military and the very rich and powerful, and there not being enuf left over for education, infrastructure, health care and wages, we are becoming more like Mexico.
Sorry for the diversion.
Carry on.
Yup. And our pay gap - the inequality between the rich and poor - is somewhere between Cameroon and Jamaica. Except they have better beaches.
And better healthcare.
"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill
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Magon's, I live in Oregon in the States. Its the state north of California, its the state on the West Coast that everyone forgets. National NAMI (I work for county NAMI) wrote up a chart called Grading the States about mental health care in the US and OR got a D. :(
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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So would you consider yourself to be Irish-American? I was a little confused, because you use Irish language and talk about Ireland, I wondered if you were from there.
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I'm not sure I'd cope with the cold and the bears. Apart from that, might be taking a peek there next year.
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I'm not sure I'd cope with the cold and the bears. Apart from that, might be taking a peek there next year.
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