$950 is WAY out of the reach of most American families. And expect even that premium to go way higher if anyone in your family ever develops a chronic illness.
I suspect the UK wouldn't be too happy if U.S. refugees started flooding into UK hospitals. I suspect they would change the policy pretty quickly if that ever happened.
According to many of the posters here, all you need is a tax-free health savings account and all your problems will be solved. They're going to give you the freedom to help yourself.
Except a voucher is as worthless as the paper it's printed on for anyone with a preexisting condition, or who's in poor health, or who's over 30, etc. People without healthcare in the U.S. don't need freedom, they need healthcare. Giving someone a $50 a month voucher to get insurance, when no insurance company in the country will insure them, isn't helping them. It's just insulting them.
Because he's a conservative who's never been unemployed, broke, and sick. He thinks that all we need is a tax-free savings account to save our healthcare system. He thinks there is an unemployed cancer patient sitting out there who would be just fine--if only he could pay for his own healthcare without a small tax on his savings. All we need is for the government to get out of the way; and all the poor, unemployed, underemployed, etc, would finally have the freedom to pay for their own healthcare with the millions of $ that are going to magically appear out of nowhere once we cut taxes on the rich and corporations.
In other words, because he's an deluded ideologue with no connection to reality.
So, you can get health insurance for your family for 10,000 to 15,000 per year, and not have to pay much else.
Tell me, do you actually consider your words before you start typing away? Do you have any idea how much money that is to the average family in the U.S.? The average household income in the U.S. is $31,000. And that's before taxes, rent, food, etc. Do you really think someone making $31K a year can afford $10K-$15 just for health insurance?
If you can't get a job, that's about the quickest, easiest way to get healthcare in the U.S. The healthcare isn't great in jails and prisons, but it beats the hell out of nothing.
For those of you fortunate enough to live in developed countries, let me break down the U.S. system for you. Here are the only ways to get healthcare in the U.S.:
1) Go to prison or jail. Not the best care, but beats nothing 2) Be real poor. This will usually qualify you for Medicaid--which sucks, but is also better than nothing. 3) Be a child. There are usually programs for providing healthcare for kids. 4) Be over 65. This will qualify you for Medicare--which isn't the best by a longshot (many doctors won't accept it) but it's a lot better than Medicaid 5) Get a job with benefits. This means a full-time job (working as a cashier at Walmart won't cut it). Better come armed with a college degree. Quality is all over the map. 6) Join the military. Very good healthcare. But this could involve getting shot at. 7) Become a Congressman of other high-ranking government official. Best fucking care you can get. Expect gold-plated bedpans for yourself and your family, even as you rail against government-supported healthcare for everyone else.
Of course, you can also elect to pay for it yourself. But, if you have ever seen what even basic healthcare costs in the U.S., you will realize this is impractical for anyone who isn't Bill Gates. A single emergency room visit could easily bankrupt even a moderately well-off individual. And don't even THINK about having surgery unless you've got a mansion to mortgage.
G4 has only two moderately decent shows left ("Attack of the Show" and "X-Play") and even those are just sad shadows of their ZDTV/TechTV predecessors ("Screen Savers" and the original X-Play, back when it aired more than twice a month). Any further downhill and their primetime lineup will consist of "Men Farting," "The Bimbos in Bikinis Power Hour," and "Oww, My Balls!"
Comparing the Terminator films is always interesting to me. The first one is really just about survival. The second one has hope, a sense that the future is mutable. The third is fatalistic. And the fourth returns to a new kind of hope.
It's just reflecting its comic book origins. No one ever really dies in comic books. No real sacrifices are made. Dead heroes are always brought back. Everything bad just turns out to be in some alternate universe. Pam always finds Bobby in the shower at the end.
But if you want to cite the most egregious example of this, you have to go back a lot further than modern superhero movies. The "Oh, I'll just reverse time and take it all back" cheat ending of the original Superman in 1978 was the worst example by far. It was a shame too, as that was one of the best superhero movies ever made (excluding the aforementioned lame-ass cheat at the end). If they had only had the balls to leave Lois Lane dead at the end, it would have gone down as a true legend of a film.
You think that adopting a 14-year-old son of a crack dealer and a prostitute is going to be the same as having your own baby? Ha, obviously you aren't familiar with the kids out there available for adoption. We're not talking about a bunch of cute little white babies just waiting at the pound. It's mostly a bunch of very fucked-up minority preteens and teens with serious behavioral problems stemming from the shitty parents who they were taken away from. That's in a completely different world than having your own baby.
It's not just nuke plants. U.S. infrastructure in general has been sinking into the shitter since the 70's. My own city's sewer system and coal-fire power plant are both in need of almost complete replacement. And don't even get me started on the bridges.
Of course, the deterioration of some pieces of infrastructure are a little more dangerous than others.
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That's probably because the self-insured never get to the point of having surgery (unless they're rich).
$950 is WAY out of the reach of most American families. And expect even that premium to go way higher if anyone in your family ever develops a chronic illness.
I suspect the UK wouldn't be too happy if U.S. refugees started flooding into UK hospitals. I suspect they would change the policy pretty quickly if that ever happened.
According to many of the posters here, all you need is a tax-free health savings account and all your problems will be solved. They're going to give you the freedom to help yourself.
I'm glad you have family, friends, and charitable organizations willing to foot the bill for your $50,000 surgery. But I suspect that's not typical.
Except a voucher is as worthless as the paper it's printed on for anyone with a preexisting condition, or who's in poor health, or who's over 30, etc. People without healthcare in the U.S. don't need freedom, they need healthcare. Giving someone a $50 a month voucher to get insurance, when no insurance company in the country will insure them, isn't helping them. It's just insulting them.
Because he's a conservative who's never been unemployed, broke, and sick. He thinks that all we need is a tax-free savings account to save our healthcare system. He thinks there is an unemployed cancer patient sitting out there who would be just fine--if only he could pay for his own healthcare without a small tax on his savings. All we need is for the government to get out of the way; and all the poor, unemployed, underemployed, etc, would finally have the freedom to pay for their own healthcare with the millions of $ that are going to magically appear out of nowhere once we cut taxes on the rich and corporations.
In other words, because he's an deluded ideologue with no connection to reality.
So, you can get health insurance for your family for 10,000 to 15,000 per year, and not have to pay much else.
Tell me, do you actually consider your words before you start typing away? Do you have any idea how much money that is to the average family in the U.S.? The average household income in the U.S. is $31,000. And that's before taxes, rent, food, etc. Do you really think someone making $31K a year can afford $10K-$15 just for health insurance?
Are you high, or just fucking stupid?
If you can't get a job, that's about the quickest, easiest way to get healthcare in the U.S. The healthcare isn't great in jails and prisons, but it beats the hell out of nothing.
For those of you fortunate enough to live in developed countries, let me break down the U.S. system for you. Here are the only ways to get healthcare in the U.S.:
1) Go to prison or jail. Not the best care, but beats nothing
2) Be real poor. This will usually qualify you for Medicaid--which sucks, but is also better than nothing.
3) Be a child. There are usually programs for providing healthcare for kids.
4) Be over 65. This will qualify you for Medicare--which isn't the best by a longshot (many doctors won't accept it) but it's a lot better than Medicaid
5) Get a job with benefits. This means a full-time job (working as a cashier at Walmart won't cut it). Better come armed with a college degree. Quality is all over the map.
6) Join the military. Very good healthcare. But this could involve getting shot at.
7) Become a Congressman of other high-ranking government official. Best fucking care you can get. Expect gold-plated bedpans for yourself and your family, even as you rail against government-supported healthcare for everyone else.
Of course, you can also elect to pay for it yourself. But, if you have ever seen what even basic healthcare costs in the U.S., you will realize this is impractical for anyone who isn't Bill Gates. A single emergency room visit could easily bankrupt even a moderately well-off individual. And don't even THINK about having surgery unless you've got a mansion to mortgage.
Man I miss Leo Laporte. That guy was a fucking god. A god with horrid taste in shirts, but a god nonetheless.
G4 has only two moderately decent shows left ("Attack of the Show" and "X-Play") and even those are just sad shadows of their ZDTV/TechTV predecessors ("Screen Savers" and the original X-Play, back when it aired more than twice a month). Any further downhill and their primetime lineup will consist of "Men Farting," "The Bimbos in Bikinis Power Hour," and "Oww, My Balls!"
the Boston Bruins have more Canadian players than any other team in the league
Even better, for a 50% discount, we'll trade you a Stanley Cup award-winning team for repatriation.
people basically remain the same
Well, yeah, but they smell a lot better now.
Sure, having a "life" is all well and good for my friends. But have they paused for even a moment and thought about what will become of my farm?!?!?
We'll trade you the Stanley Cup for a discount.
Supreme Court agreed with the companies that regulating greenhouse gases should be left to the Environmental Protection Agency
Yes, and I'm sure they're going to start doing that any day now.
Well, that $5 a month finally gets me SOMETHING over PSN and Steam.
Comparing the Terminator films is always interesting to me. The first one is really just about survival. The second one has hope, a sense that the future is mutable. The third is fatalistic. And the fourth returns to a new kind of hope.
It's just reflecting its comic book origins. No one ever really dies in comic books. No real sacrifices are made. Dead heroes are always brought back. Everything bad just turns out to be in some alternate universe. Pam always finds Bobby in the shower at the end.
But if you want to cite the most egregious example of this, you have to go back a lot further than modern superhero movies. The "Oh, I'll just reverse time and take it all back" cheat ending of the original Superman in 1978 was the worst example by far. It was a shame too, as that was one of the best superhero movies ever made (excluding the aforementioned lame-ass cheat at the end). If they had only had the balls to leave Lois Lane dead at the end, it would have gone down as a true legend of a film.
How about we stop spending money on destroying sh*t and spend it on building stuff?
What are you, some kind of commie?
It's cute until you realize they're blinking "kill" in Morse.
Even if I send wave-after-wave of my men at them?
There are plenty of children in need of adoption
You think that adopting a 14-year-old son of a crack dealer and a prostitute is going to be the same as having your own baby? Ha, obviously you aren't familiar with the kids out there available for adoption. We're not talking about a bunch of cute little white babies just waiting at the pound. It's mostly a bunch of very fucked-up minority preteens and teens with serious behavioral problems stemming from the shitty parents who they were taken away from. That's in a completely different world than having your own baby.
It's not just nuke plants. U.S. infrastructure in general has been sinking into the shitter since the 70's. My own city's sewer system and coal-fire power plant are both in need of almost complete replacement. And don't even get me started on the bridges.
Of course, the deterioration of some pieces of infrastructure are a little more dangerous than others.
Fortunately, I have all my money in flooz.