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Healthcare
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RE: Healthcare
(June 30, 2012 at 3:42 am)aleialoura Wrote: When my cousin (who thinks it's the best thing ever that her church got a Starbucks in it) posted a picture of Jesus holding the constitution, I couldn't resist reminding her the Roe vs. Wade is a part of the constitution now. She argued that vehemently. It was hilarious. Then she told me that if she had it her way, my children and I would never see a doctor again, exclaiming that only Americans deserve to see doctors, and that I am not American because I "hate god and want to kill babies".

Have they found a brain donor for your cousin yet?

(June 30, 2012 at 3:15 pm)Metonymie Wrote:
Quote:I don't know what it means to be an American. I think I'd be happier to be one if my fellow citizens weren't married to their insanity. I believe in reason, personally. I'll will and do stand up for that as much as possible. If that makes me "Un-American", then fuck America.

That's an interesting point to me, because I, of course, have no idea what being american means. In Germany people don't identify with their country. Patriotism is, more or less, a taboo (I guess, I don't have to explain why).
(A bit off topic, I know)

To healthcare:
What has changed (or will change) now or how was it before the reform?
I seriously can't imagine how it's like to have no health-insurance. Was it possible to refuse patients for doctors in a hospital? Did you get a bill after you've been there?
I really have no clue.

No we just make them go around to the emergency ward where their care will cost 20 times more and gum up the works for those with real emergencies.

You are so lucky to be post-patriotism. In the US, talking heads look right into the camera and shamelessly speak of "american exceptionalism" as if they were talking about "divine right". We are so fucked.

(June 30, 2012 at 9:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(June 30, 2012 at 6:33 pm)Brian37 Wrote: There is NO SUCH THING AS A LOW SKILL JOB! There are simply people who make more and make less. What is easy to one person will be hard to another.

This has to be one of the dumbest fucking things I've seen said in awhile. Because you know, the guy waving around sign on the corner for the shitty pizza place down the street needs the same level of skills, education, and experience as a neurosurgeon.

But hey, don't let me get in the way of another one of your tangental rants.

Yep. One thing to appreciate the person who does the shit work for you. Another thing to pretend that shit work is just as intellectually demanding as jobs requiring knowledge, skill and judgment. Part of what makes shit work shitty is how little it challenges you. Hurrah that some are willing to do it and there is nobility in any work. But some jobs are mind numbing.
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Messages In This Thread
Healthcare - by Metonymie - June 29, 2012 at 2:59 pm
RE: Healthcare - by frankiej - June 29, 2012 at 3:04 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 3:05 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Napoléon - June 29, 2012 at 3:19 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Tiberius - July 2, 2012 at 9:57 am
RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 3:26 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Anomalocaris - June 29, 2012 at 3:36 pm
RE: Healthcare - by JohnDG - June 29, 2012 at 5:00 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Anomalocaris - July 2, 2012 at 11:19 am
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - June 29, 2012 at 5:06 pm
RE: Healthcare - by 5thHorseman - June 29, 2012 at 6:28 pm
RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 29, 2012 at 6:41 pm
RE: Healthcare - by cratehorus - July 2, 2012 at 7:59 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 7:15 pm
RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 29, 2012 at 8:02 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Minimalist - June 29, 2012 at 8:29 pm
RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 30, 2012 at 6:23 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Erinome - June 30, 2012 at 3:42 am
RE: Healthcare - by JohnDG - June 30, 2012 at 5:31 am
RE: Healthcare - by Jaysyn - June 30, 2012 at 2:50 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Metonymie - June 30, 2012 at 3:15 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Whateverist - July 1, 2012 at 10:30 am
RE: Healthcare - by Erinome - June 30, 2012 at 6:52 am
RE: Healthcare - by Gambit - June 30, 2012 at 7:40 am
RE: Healthcare - by Gambit - June 30, 2012 at 5:48 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Zarathustra - June 30, 2012 at 6:05 pm
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - June 30, 2012 at 6:07 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Jackalope - June 30, 2012 at 6:26 pm
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - June 30, 2012 at 7:00 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Brian37 - June 30, 2012 at 8:01 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Brian37 - June 30, 2012 at 6:33 pm
RE: Healthcare - by goddamnit - June 30, 2012 at 9:22 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Jackalope - June 30, 2012 at 9:40 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Justtristo - June 30, 2012 at 7:54 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Angrboda - June 30, 2012 at 7:54 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Annik - June 30, 2012 at 9:24 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Jquik26 - July 1, 2012 at 1:53 am
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 1, 2012 at 11:18 am
RE: Healthcare - by Metonymie - July 1, 2012 at 11:24 am
RE: Healthcare - by frankiej - July 2, 2012 at 10:00 am
RE: Healthcare - by KichigaiNeko - July 2, 2012 at 9:39 am
RE: Healthcare - by kılıç_mehmet - July 3, 2012 at 8:45 am
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 3, 2012 at 8:32 pm
RE: Healthcare - by cratehorus - July 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 11, 2012 at 11:37 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Gambit - July 11, 2012 at 11:43 pm
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 12, 2012 at 12:10 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Autumnlicious - July 12, 2012 at 1:02 am
RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 12, 2012 at 2:16 am
RE: Healthcare - by Deicide73 - July 12, 2012 at 8:00 am
RE: Healthcare - by padraic - July 12, 2012 at 9:28 am
RE: Healthcare - by Autumnlicious - July 12, 2012 at 1:40 pm
RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 12, 2012 at 9:57 pm
RE: Healthcare - by jackman - July 13, 2012 at 9:32 am
RE: Healthcare - by Polaris - July 13, 2012 at 10:02 am

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