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Entil'Zha
I see famous people
in Zocalo v2.0
Gah, it's been one of those months so far, First, I go to the doctor for a crapload of arm-pain, and he says "Oh, lets send you to an orthpedist, that'll be $120 please" So i go see the Ortho, who says "Hey, looks like the rest of your Rotator cuff has gone fucko, full thickness tear, YAY, but you don't want surgery yet since it has a recovery time of 9-12 months, so let me jab you in the back with this big assed needle and pump you full of steroids... Thatl'll be $300 please" (140 for the office visit, $33 for the sterioids and get this, $150 for him jabbing me in the back with it)
Then i come down with some sort of sinus infection, which has turned into some sort of bronchitis, going to get pumped full of antibiotics tomorow, that's been going on for about a week now.
And to top it all of.... My fucking PS3 dies... all I need now is for my goldfish to drop dead (i don't actually HAVE a goldfish, so if it does drop dead we are all in trouble)
But on the bright side... the steroid shot did seem to help a lot, and should allow me to put off the surgery till the fall (that'll be $17,000 please)
Then i come down with some sort of sinus infection, which has turned into some sort of bronchitis, going to get pumped full of antibiotics tomorow, that's been going on for about a week now.
And to top it all of.... My fucking PS3 dies... all I need now is for my goldfish to drop dead (i don't actually HAVE a goldfish, so if it does drop dead we are all in trouble)
But on the bright side... the steroid shot did seem to help a lot, and should allow me to put off the surgery till the fall (that'll be $17,000 please)
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That would be un-American, you commie!
And why do you think it isn't going into effect till 2012? The world will end, and so his "Changes" will be moot anyway... :D
Obamanation indeed...
U.S.S.A. Union of Soviet Socialist Amerika
Traitor to the Constitution
but hey... That's just my opinion...
;)
Try $500 a pop for CS injections in the neck x 3, then another 3 knee injections before a $70,000 hit for knee surgery and implant, each instance losing time at work, plus 2 weeks for recovery.
It's not over either... :s
[QUOTE=Entil'Zha;187979]Gah, it's been one of those months so far, First, I go to the doctor for a crapload of arm-pain, and he says "Oh, lets send you to an orthpedist, that'll be $120 please" So i go see the Ortho, who says "Hey, looks like the rest of your Rotator cuff has gone fucko, full thickness tear, YAY, but you don't want surgery yet since it has a recovery time of 9-12 months, so let me jab you in the back with this big assed needle and pump you full of steroids... Thatl'll be $300 please" (140 for the office visit, $33 for the sterioids and get this, $150 for him jabbing me in the back with it)
Then i come down with some sort of sinus infection, which has turned into some sort of bronchitis, going to get pumped full of antibiotics tomorow, that's been going on for about a week now.
And to top it all of.... My fucking PS3 dies... all I need now is for my goldfish to drop dead (i don't actually HAVE a goldfish, so if it does drop dead we are all in trouble)
But on the bright side... the steroid shot did seem to help a lot, and should allow me to put off the surgery till the fall (that'll be $17,000 please)[/QUOTE]
I know the NHS isnt perfect, I work in it so I know its flaws...but I really cannot understand how paying $17,000 for surgery and $300 for an injection can be considered any better. Sure you get it quick, but you get completely screwed over in the process. I'd rather wait a few weeks in physical pain than have to fork out that sort of money which even with insurance I wouldnt be able to afford for the next decade
I know the NHS isnt perfect, I work in it so I know its flaws...but I really cannot understand how paying $17,000 for surgery and $300 for an injection can be considered any better. Sure you get it quick, but you get completely screwed over in the process. I'd rather wait a few weeks in physical pain than have to fork out that sort of money which even with insurance I wouldnt be able to afford for the next decade[/QUOTE]
Oh, NHS isn't even close to what we're getting. We're not even getting a single-payer, government-run insurance company paying private hospitals and doctors. We're not even getting an [i]option[/i] for a government-run insurance company to compete with the private insurance outfits. What we're getting is a ban on denying coverage on account of preexisting conditions, and a corresponding tax incentive to ensure everyone who can purchases insurance (because otherwise, people could cheat the system by only buying health insurance when they got sick, since it'd now be illegal to tell anyone who did that to take a hike).
So, that's it. That's Evil Zombie Lenin's plot to destroy America: Hand the [i]private insurance companies[/i] 32 million new customers and pathetically little incentive to actually improve their service. It should tell you everything you need to know about the health insurance industry's motivations that they fought tooth and nail against this bill when pretty much the only thing in it that went against them was removing their ability to arbitrarily deny coverage to people who had been paying them premiums for years.
Oh, and the final plan, as passed, is pretty much the same as the Republican counter-proposal to Bill Clinton's proposed health care reforms in 1994. Great to know that the End of America isn't going to come about because of what's actually done, but rather who are the ones that are doing it.
This was not a health care bill, it was a health insurance bill.
Jake
:D
JackN, Believe me i know all about that too, when i had my arm surgery the total cost was around $50k thank god i had Insurance at the time.
As for universal healthcare, I have no problem paying for my own, as long as its AFFORDABLE! the one part of Obama's plan that i want in effect NOW, is not being able to be denied for a pre-existing condition. (although even though they will have to cover you for a pre-existing, there is nothing that says they can't charge you one bajillion times more for your premium if you have one)
I don't really understand why a public health system is against the US constitution, as a lot of people there claimed it is during all the debates. If someone could explain it to me, that would be nice...
[quote]The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.[/quote]
This is one of the big supports for "state rights." However very few people actually care about state rights and only cite it if it furthers their actual agenda (anti-healthcare, legalize marijuana, etc)