WTF do you mean Bush & Co. were more honest? Obama demands laws to be rewritten to allow his unconstitutional policies. If that ain't transparency, I don't know what is! Yay, satisfying campaign promises! Change! Transparency!
Love all the grief I'm getting about this post. Y'all clearly know a lot more about my wife's head injury than her doctor... guess I should have Asked Slashdot.
Who the hell criticized a doctor? The system is clogged; that's hardly the doctor's fault. You're off base: I was replying to the coward who claimed that social democracies are the best, and my entire point is that there are tradeoffs, that no system is perfect.
I love that you spout this black-and-white thoughtless bullshit and then deride GP for a lack of "balance". Your worldview is utterly simple. I'm an american living in a social democracy (Canada). We've got this 'universal health care' thing. It mostly works. It's better than the US in that mcdonalds & walmart employees are all covered. But, quality of care leaves much to be desired.
A typical example. It took my wife 9 months to get a NMR after a concussion -- the conversation with the doc was surreal: "What complications would an NMR find?" "Well, the worst thing would be internal bleeding in the brain." "How bad is that?" "Well, it could kill you in a week." "Are there any warning signs to look out for?" " but other than that, no." "That sounds like an emergency, can't we get bumped up the line?" "No, the system does not view this an emergency."
I've spoken to probably a dozen people about this -- everybody has a similar story. Another example, my neighbor tore a ligament in his knee, waited 7 months before he could get it reattached. During that time, he picked up an addiction to pain killers and lost 70% of the muscle mass in the leg. And then once he got the surgery, paid a few grand out of pocket for physiotherapy.
We also have huge problems getting prescription drugs. We bargain with pharmaceutical companies for drugs... and Canada has a smaller population and less bargaining power than certain markets in the US. So we literally get edged out of the market on certain pharmaceuticals. It's increasingly common in some provinces to make 'conditional surgery appointments': they'll operate if they get the necessary drugs... otherwise you go back on the waitlist.
Somewhere, some people are taking too much profit, I'm sure, just I don't know who they are, or how to find out who they are, and I don't know how to change the system without changing a big part of American society in the process.
Just about everybody, except for those in care of actually doing the medicine (doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists... and janitors, who really shouldn't do the medicine, but need to be paid more). It's a deep bureaucracy where middlemen abound. Insurance companies take a huge cut, execs get paid way too much. Some rockstar surgeons get paid a cool half million a year... and they deserve every penny of that. Hospital C*Os shouldn't make anywhere near that. But they control the budget... so that'll never happen.
This is why social health makes sense to people. All the money is getting distributed wrong. Sure, there will be more overhead and more tiers of hierarchy, but the higher levels of the bureaucracy are government jobs with relatively low pay. It seems like a mixed public/private system is best: let the rich spend their millions on shorter lines and more advanced care -- but if you need to pay to get healthy, the poor get sicker, hence poorer, and drain the economy.
If your laptop is made of wheat, they may keep you off the plane because of some passenger's gluten intolerant anyway. But if, like mine, your laptop is made out of sweet sweet petrolium, you haven't a worry in the world. These ag-baggers won't pay your luggage any mind.
Also, seriously: laptops and other valuables go in your carryon. Luggage inspectors have fast fingers. Lost my favorite knife to one of those bastards. I wish for the day that I could carry a damned pocket knife aboard a plane again.
It seems that lately people inject forms of the word bigot as an attention-grabber when the word usually is a better description of themeselves - the ones attempting to place the label on others.
You don't want this "invisibility cloak". You'd have a big fucking red lazer ring painted around you. And there'd be a big empty black patch in the middle. And some random archer is walking his dog in the next park over, and whammo! He empties his quiver into you, thinking it was a deliberate target set up. Only upon retrieving his first bloody arrow to discover that he's a murderer. Good job, assole, you ruined the archer's life.
Utterly beside the point. Look at the headline: they picked the state that did the worst over the course of its first month already known to be riddled with website issues. News, this ain't -- no need to defend its nerdsforiness.
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In fact, it's relatively rare that the father's role in birth defects is even considered by scientists...
FTFY. A lack of knowledge in this area is hardly surprising. A woman produces her eggs during puberty. A man produces his sperm daily. Ergo, day-to-day differences in a man's habits are likely to have a significant impact on his offspring.
We know that heavy drinking during early pregnancy is bad... but what about the man's drinking before conception? What about other drugs?
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Go back to health class, son. Or... I guess... if your wife is dumb enough to fall for that... keep on keeping on. The world could do without your children.
In the US, when cops draw their guns, they're obliged to fire at least 6 rounds before holstering them. Doesn't really seem to matter who they shoot, either. Only a beating with guns drawn? These are the good guys!
Slashdot Mirror
If you shoot your victim to death, and there's no evidence that their participation wasn't consentual, then it wasn't murder, right?
Whereas some prefer products imbued with the souls of broken political prisoners. Transparency benefits everybody, really.
When would I find time to read when I'm already so busy inventing?
Or, if you want to try your hand at meta regex golf there's a place for that, too.
Next, in finance: Local main aims to make millions by purchasing a lottery ticket!
Seriously. This is news if they succeed. Chumps.
WTF do you mean Bush & Co. were more honest? Obama demands laws to be rewritten to allow his unconstitutional policies. If that ain't transparency, I don't know what is! Yay, satisfying campaign promises! Change! Transparency!
Love all the grief I'm getting about this post. Y'all clearly know a lot more about my wife's head injury than her doctor... guess I should have Asked Slashdot.
Or ponies. Ponies will kill you if nothing else does.
Don't like the taste of dick.
Who the hell criticized a doctor? The system is clogged; that's hardly the doctor's fault. You're off base: I was replying to the coward who claimed that social democracies are the best, and my entire point is that there are tradeoffs, that no system is perfect.
I love that you spout this black-and-white thoughtless bullshit and then deride GP for a lack of "balance". Your worldview is utterly simple. I'm an american living in a social democracy (Canada). We've got this 'universal health care' thing. It mostly works. It's better than the US in that mcdonalds & walmart employees are all covered. But, quality of care leaves much to be desired.
A typical example. It took my wife 9 months to get a NMR after a concussion -- the conversation with the doc was surreal: "What complications would an NMR find?" "Well, the worst thing would be internal bleeding in the brain." "How bad is that?" "Well, it could kill you in a week." "Are there any warning signs to look out for?" " but other than that, no." "That sounds like an emergency, can't we get bumped up the line?" "No, the system does not view this an emergency."
I've spoken to probably a dozen people about this -- everybody has a similar story. Another example, my neighbor tore a ligament in his knee, waited 7 months before he could get it reattached. During that time, he picked up an addiction to pain killers and lost 70% of the muscle mass in the leg. And then once he got the surgery, paid a few grand out of pocket for physiotherapy.
We also have huge problems getting prescription drugs. We bargain with pharmaceutical companies for drugs... and Canada has a smaller population and less bargaining power than certain markets in the US. So we literally get edged out of the market on certain pharmaceuticals. It's increasingly common in some provinces to make 'conditional surgery appointments': they'll operate if they get the necessary drugs... otherwise you go back on the waitlist.
Somewhere, some people are taking too much profit, I'm sure, just I don't know who they are, or how to find out who they are, and I don't know how to change the system without changing a big part of American society in the process.
Just about everybody, except for those in care of actually doing the medicine (doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists... and janitors, who really shouldn't do the medicine, but need to be paid more). It's a deep bureaucracy where middlemen abound. Insurance companies take a huge cut, execs get paid way too much. Some rockstar surgeons get paid a cool half million a year... and they deserve every penny of that. Hospital C*Os shouldn't make anywhere near that. But they control the budget... so that'll never happen.
This is why social health makes sense to people. All the money is getting distributed wrong. Sure, there will be more overhead and more tiers of hierarchy, but the higher levels of the bureaucracy are government jobs with relatively low pay. It seems like a mixed public/private system is best: let the rich spend their millions on shorter lines and more advanced care -- but if you need to pay to get healthy, the poor get sicker, hence poorer, and drain the economy.
I never bother; I'm too busy turning pages.
If your laptop is made of wheat, they may keep you off the plane because of some passenger's gluten intolerant anyway. But if, like mine, your laptop is made out of sweet sweet petrolium, you haven't a worry in the world. These ag-baggers won't pay your luggage any mind.
Also, seriously: laptops and other valuables go in your carryon. Luggage inspectors have fast fingers. Lost my favorite knife to one of those bastards. I wish for the day that I could carry a damned pocket knife aboard a plane again.
It seems that lately people inject forms of the word bigot as an attention-grabber when the word usually is a better description of themeselves - the ones attempting to place the label on others.
Apparently, if you pour water into a glass made of transparent aluminum, it dries it. It's still water, just not moist.
Ought be humourous, to yon Canadian.
I said no need to defend its nerdsforiness. It's not news.
You don't want this "invisibility cloak". You'd have a big fucking red lazer ring painted around you. And there'd be a big empty black patch in the middle. And some random archer is walking his dog in the next park over, and whammo! He empties his quiver into you, thinking it was a deliberate target set up. Only upon retrieving his first bloody arrow to discover that he's a murderer. Good job, assole, you ruined the archer's life.
Thanks for the fact-check.
Utterly beside the point. Look at the headline: they picked the state that did the worst over the course of its first month already known to be riddled with website issues. News, this ain't -- no need to defend its nerdsforiness.
In fact, it's relatively rare that the father's role in birth defects is even considered by scientists...
FTFY. A lack of knowledge in this area is hardly surprising. A woman produces her eggs during puberty. A man produces his sperm daily. Ergo, day-to-day differences in a man's habits are likely to have a significant impact on his offspring.
We know that heavy drinking during early pregnancy is bad... but what about the man's drinking before conception? What about other drugs?
Go back to health class, son. Or... I guess... if your wife is dumb enough to fall for that... keep on keeping on. The world could do without your children.
In the US, when cops draw their guns, they're obliged to fire at least 6 rounds before holstering them. Doesn't really seem to matter who they shoot, either. Only a beating with guns drawn? These are the good guys!
Car theft? Not "horrible" by any stretch of the imagination.