In the US, you have the option of making contact with your donor after one year.
Unless your patient is in really sad shape, a bone marrow donation is like giving platelets. You have a needle in each arm. Blood goes out, is filtered for stem cells, and is then put back in.
You are also given special drugs to increase stem cell production and make them readily available in your bloodstream.
You can give blood to anyone that has a compatible blood type. If you are a universal donor, this could be just about anyone. A bone marrow donation is far more personal. You may be the only choice, the only hope for one particular patient, you and no one else.
If you think that a morally superior deity is actually in control of things then it makes perfect sense. Some suffering can be attributed to human free will but quite a lot can't.
Some religious constructs avoid this problem. Those tend to be ancient and out of favor.
I don't see how it matters what age the stem cells are. GVHD is caused by the mismatch in the genes of the stem cells and the donor. That doesn't change just because the stem cells are a little younger. In cord blood transplants, they still try to match the donor to the donation.
...except that this is really only a PCI-e cable. That means DRIVERS.
Although any wired bus standard has this problem. Slapping a thunderbolt interface on an phone won't be that simple. Beyond the fact that a TB port is no trivial thing, you will still need drivers for the phone.
A high performance GPU is not something that's a vendor is going to want to handle with the equivalent of a standard USB driver.
A gaming PC can be as small or as big as you want. It's not the 90s any more. There's ITX, shoe boxes, cubes, and steam boxes. There are even some lower profile boxes with decent GPUs in them.
If you aren't interested in 9 external 3.5" hot swap drive bays, a powerful machine can be quite small.
Middle class is about HOW you make your money, rather than how much. That definition you cited is just part of the usual attempts to divide and conquer the middle class.
If none of the money is working for you, you aren't really middle class at all. You're just a working class schlub with more debt and bigger do-dads.
The HOW also determines whether or not the tax code works for or against you.
The original version of beef in the "basket of goods" was probably ground chuck. The fact that some of us like grass feed beef from cows that spend all day at the spa is probably not terribly relevant generally.
The consumer price index isn't intended to accommodate pretentious foodies that are unwilling to shop at Safeway like most of the population. This kind of citation is total nonsense.
Nonsense like this is what inspires Tea Bagger busybodies to try and micromanage Food Stamps.
> Against all probabilities, your rates in Texas are relatively cheap.
People like to whine about Texas. What I find confusing are those that come here and still whine. Clearly some of these people have ZERO experience with places like California. The prices in Cali are one of the reasons I moved here instead. They were BRUTAL in 2001. I don't even want to think what they are like now.
Texas had pretty decent private market insurance before Obamacare came.
Any useful measures that individual states might have had before got wiped out. Again, I am intrigued that Democrat controlled states didn't already have themselves sorted out.
> Pre-Obamacare single adults couldn't get on Medicare regardless of income. I have two friends with medical conditions that prevent them from working
Utter bullshit.
Medicare covers the disabled. Any support group for whatever condition they suffer from could likely provide you with all of the information you need on getting your status and what specific Medicare options are best.
I know "young people" that get their cancer costs covered by Medicare.
It's not exactly trivial but that's American social-welfare for you. That suckage is why you don't want socialized medicine for everyone.
> What the fuck are you like 63 and a smoker or something? > > I've got a silver HMO
That is an inferior tier of health plan. It reduces your choices and will keep you out of the best facilities. That's kind of pathetic because we have one of the premier cancer treatment centers on the entire planet.
It's not the time to be cheap when you're life is on the line.
American's in general need to get that socialist bit of thinking out of their heads.
> I assume by "basic" you meant "cardiac arrest & shattered femur".. because it kind of seems like your wife and you were only paying for a skimpy catastrophic-care plan, and were either ignoring "basic" health care or paying for it out of pocket with cash.
Here's a little secret for you blithering morons: If you are covered by insurance, you get deep discounts for being insured. You pay much less for things that you "pay cash for". So that there is an immediate benefit of "skimpy catastrophic plan".
The point of such a plan is that you pay less in premiums and sock some of those savings away instead of just blowing them. That way you have enough in your HSA account to cover "basic" health care and your out of pocket limits in a bad year.
This is all about you being an adult and managing your own life versus handing that over to some corporation or government.
This is not complex stuff but people seem staggeringly ignorant of it.
> And yes, the trend of increasing costs that existed before Obamacare has continued.
Another talking point from the cult.
My rates were not going up nearly as fast until Obamacare came around. Choices in the private market place have also been reduced. The top tier plans aren't available to individuals any more.
Obamacare actually forced me OUT of the private market. I can't afford to deal with a crappy HMO.
...except Obamacare is actually related to healthcare. Whereas your red herring is not.
Of course the party faithful will make up any excuse they can think of. There can be no negative consequences, not even ones you might think might occur due to this being the real world rather than some sort of fantasy or simulation.
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The bill to harvest my donor's stem cells was 40K.
Chances are that insurance only paid 1/3rd of that.
It depends on the country.
In the US, you have the option of making contact with your donor after one year.
Unless your patient is in really sad shape, a bone marrow donation is like giving platelets. You have a needle in each arm. Blood goes out, is filtered for stem cells, and is then put back in.
You are also given special drugs to increase stem cell production and make them readily available in your bloodstream.
You can give blood to anyone that has a compatible blood type. If you are a universal donor, this could be just about anyone. A bone marrow donation is far more personal. You may be the only choice, the only hope for one particular patient, you and no one else.
If you think that a morally superior deity is actually in control of things then it makes perfect sense. Some suffering can be attributed to human free will but quite a lot can't.
Some religious constructs avoid this problem. Those tend to be ancient and out of favor.
I don't see how it matters what age the stem cells are. GVHD is caused by the mismatch in the genes of the stem cells and the donor. That doesn't change just because the stem cells are a little younger. In cord blood transplants, they still try to match the donor to the donation.
So the rest of the world is worse and that gives socialism or Europe a free pass?
Although I think more of the Nazis when it comes to euthanizing those who are a "burden on society".
...except that this is really only a PCI-e cable. That means DRIVERS.
Although any wired bus standard has this problem. Slapping a thunderbolt interface on an phone won't be that simple. Beyond the fact that a TB port is no trivial thing, you will still need drivers for the phone.
A high performance GPU is not something that's a vendor is going to want to handle with the equivalent of a standard USB driver.
> That's no problem. You can always buy next year the new model.
Yeah, for 5 times the cost of the video card by itself.
Meanwhile, your old monitor will be reduced in value because of it's obsolete components.
When has ANY GPU ever been upgraded in such a manner?
Getting the latest version of PureVideo with a 5 year old card/monitor? Don't see it happening.
This seems like something that will add capabilities not possible or practical with their current workforce.
Linux is certainly more Unix than MacOS is.
A gaming PC can be as small or as big as you want. It's not the 90s any more. There's ITX, shoe boxes, cubes, and steam boxes. There are even some lower profile boxes with decent GPUs in them.
If you aren't interested in 9 external 3.5" hot swap drive bays, a powerful machine can be quite small.
Middle class is about HOW you make your money, rather than how much. That definition you cited is just part of the usual attempts to divide and conquer the middle class.
If none of the money is working for you, you aren't really middle class at all. You're just a working class schlub with more debt and bigger do-dads.
The HOW also determines whether or not the tax code works for or against you.
Just cook it thoroughly and make sure to wash your hands... '-p
The original version of beef in the "basket of goods" was probably ground chuck. The fact that some of us like grass feed beef from cows that spend all day at the spa is probably not terribly relevant generally.
The consumer price index isn't intended to accommodate pretentious foodies that are unwilling to shop at Safeway like most of the population. This kind of citation is total nonsense.
Nonsense like this is what inspires Tea Bagger busybodies to try and micromanage Food Stamps.
> 4 years ago I could buy a lbs of beef for $1.99, it's around $5.99-7.30lbs these days.
No it isn't. Anyone can get on the walmart delivery site or some other online grocer or even the Costco Business site and call such bullshit on this.
I don't even pay that much for ground Buffalo, or duck, or lamb.
You can get ground beef for $2 per pound at Walmart.
You can probably get much better ground beef for $4 per pound at Costco or Sams Club. Those stores don't have "pickup menus" like Wallyworld does now.
> Against all probabilities, your rates in Texas are relatively cheap.
People like to whine about Texas. What I find confusing are those that come here and still whine. Clearly some of these people have ZERO experience with places like California. The prices in Cali are one of the reasons I moved here instead. They were BRUTAL in 2001. I don't even want to think what they are like now.
Texas had pretty decent private market insurance before Obamacare came.
Any useful measures that individual states might have had before got wiped out. Again, I am intrigued that Democrat controlled states didn't already have themselves sorted out.
> Pre-Obamacare single adults couldn't get on Medicare regardless of income. I have two friends with medical conditions that prevent them from working
Utter bullshit.
Medicare covers the disabled. Any support group for whatever condition they suffer from could likely provide you with all of the information you need on getting your status and what specific Medicare options are best.
I know "young people" that get their cancer costs covered by Medicare.
It's not exactly trivial but that's American social-welfare for you. That suckage is why you don't want socialized medicine for everyone.
Obamacare has nearly tripled my insurance premiums. While the great recession didn't bother me much, I do find increased costs bothersome.
I can absorb it. I expect most others cannot and they will have to make compromises or do without.
You can trust any bill in Congress to do the opposite of it's name.
> What the fuck are you like 63 and a smoker or something?
>
> I've got a silver HMO
That is an inferior tier of health plan. It reduces your choices and will keep you out of the best facilities. That's kind of pathetic because we have one of the premier cancer treatment centers on the entire planet.
It's not the time to be cheap when you're life is on the line.
American's in general need to get that socialist bit of thinking out of their heads.
> I assume by "basic" you meant "cardiac arrest & shattered femur".. because it kind of seems like your wife and you were only paying for a skimpy catastrophic-care plan, and were either ignoring "basic" health care or paying for it out of pocket with cash.
Here's a little secret for you blithering morons: If you are covered by insurance, you get deep discounts for being insured. You pay much less for things that you "pay cash for". So that there is an immediate benefit of "skimpy catastrophic plan".
The point of such a plan is that you pay less in premiums and sock some of those savings away instead of just blowing them. That way you have enough in your HSA account to cover "basic" health care and your out of pocket limits in a bad year.
This is all about you being an adult and managing your own life versus handing that over to some corporation or government.
This is not complex stuff but people seem staggeringly ignorant of it.
> And yes, the trend of increasing costs that existed before Obamacare has continued.
Another talking point from the cult.
My rates were not going up nearly as fast until Obamacare came around. Choices in the private market place have also been reduced. The top tier plans aren't available to individuals any more.
Obamacare actually forced me OUT of the private market. I can't afford to deal with a crappy HMO.
...except Obamacare is actually related to healthcare. Whereas your red herring is not.
Of course the party faithful will make up any excuse they can think of. There can be no negative consequences, not even ones you might think might occur due to this being the real world rather than some sort of fantasy or simulation.
Any heresy will be shouted down.