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   nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

   Yeah, as if there was a plan.

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   InspectorWingnut said, 4 months ago

   True, Nomad. Excellent ‘Toon, though.

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   cabrobst said, 4 months ago

   Wheelchairs that cost more to rent than to buy?
   It’s a scam.
   I was scammed myself, had a few stitches on a cut finger, $500 plus $200 to take them out. So when is a simple procedure worth $200 an hour?
   Care givers and insurance executives need to stop exaggerating the costs.

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   fennec said, 4 months ago

   cab, there are several factors to be considered in your $200 bill. To cite a few, malpractice insurance that any MD has to have, office staff to process the insurance forms and meet the HIPAAA and other reporting regulations, clinical staff to prepare the materials for the procedure, etc. If you wish to reduce medical costs, you must choose which of the hidden costs you can cut or reduce. BTW, the office and clinical staff are generally not wildly overpaid, you know.

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   InspectorWingnut said, 4 months ago

   Satipera, how come so many foreigners come here to our hospitals? In fact, you are succumbing to the leftist hype that the Obama Regime and others have been spewing. We still have the best health-care in the whole world available to the most people right here in America. Please look to your own backyard, as they are probably stoning a Muslim woman right now there for letting too much of her eyes show out from under her hajib.

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   fennec said, 4 months ago

   45+ million uncovered in a population of about 300 million? Do the math, LoveDoctor.

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   InspectorWingnut said, 4 months ago

   Yeah, we covered that, fennec. Turns out there’s only about 10 million suffering without health-care due to affordability issues. The rest is a discipline or personal choice issue. Unless you include the illegals.

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   lindz.coop said, 4 months ago

   Or maybe they work for WalMart – they offer medical insurance but don’t pay anyone enough to afford it. And they are so nice that they will even direct you to the nearest welfare office so you can apply for Medicaid.

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   pbarnrob said, 4 months ago

   The best? Not even close. The US is way down the list.

   Just heard a story (from our traveling teacher/storyteller friend from Tinian) about Chinese medicine, back to about 3000-4000BC; the village doctor got paid as long as you were well. It was a tiny stipend, from everybody in the village. When you got sick, your payment stopped until you were well again.

   Does that strike you as an incentive?

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    ezdeb said, 4 months ago

    LoveDoc sez: There are NO healthcare issues in America, and any problems there are started 1/21/09. Look! A Muslim!!

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    4uk4ata said, 4 months ago

    “how come so many foreigners come here to our hospitals”

    Hey, no one is debating that the US has great facilities for those who can afford the best. The problem is that the US system a) does not cover sufficiently many people and b) is very expensive - in relative and absolute terms, more expensive than those of pretty much all other developed countries that have universal coverage. I personally doubt that the coverage it gives (to those it covers) is THAT much better.

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    olfart said, 4 months ago

    …so many foreigners come here for medical care. Oh, really? I haven’t seen them. The waiting rooms are not a babel of accents. As a maater of fact, I have not heard one person from Canada or Europe say anything bad about available health care. I have, however, heard them laugh at us for our barbaric so-called “system”.

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    tjanus said, 4 months ago

    Good comic comrade, this will look good in the state-run media and Chairman Mao, err… Obama will be very pleased.

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    ezdeb said, 3 months ago

    Oct 29, 2002 … If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator,” Bush joked.

    tjanus, did you smirk then? No. Bush is a good guy, huh?

    Oh, tjanus, have you been following the Mao, err…Bush administration’s attempts to have U.S. Military troops deployed on U.S. soil to arrest suspected U.S. citizens so they could be detained not as citizens but held indefinitely as terror suspects? This is specifically and expressly forbidden by the U.S. Constitution.

    You righties might not like President Obama for whatever reason. But you earn no respect and earn no place at the table when you throw around stupid comments about state-run media and communist buzzwords.

    People like you use Nazi, Fascist, Communist, Socialist, etc interchangeably, although to intelligent people, they are actual ideologies. You also tend to get historical references mangled up; are we like pre-WWII Germany or pre-Tet Vietnam?

    Poor post, comrade.

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    fennec said, 3 months ago

    tjanus, I hope you begin to understand that spamming posts this way on this forum is not appreciated. You have posted this comment four times. That is 3 times too many.

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    pbarnrob said, 3 months ago

    And probably saved money, even after the airfare. Bring the spouse to help you back to the hotel.

    Two words: Single Payer. Michael Moore was right.