Socialised Medicine Yaaaaaaaayyyy

[mistermack]

My sister just came home. She was in hospital, waiting for a gallstones operation, which was done without breaking the skin, down the throat with cameras and stuff. A tiny procedure on the bile duct allowed the stones to pass.
It was scheduled for thursday, and done on tuesday. (early).

And yesterday was the forty fourth day this year, that I didn't have to worry about health insurance.
And neither did my family or neighbours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy.

[Clinton Huxley]

Enjoy it while you can, before the Tories and their Lib-Dem bitches complete the privatisation.

[pErvinalia]

But.. but... Freedum???

[Svartalf]

there's no freedom for the poor, when they can't get what they need.

[mistermack]

there's no freedom for the poor, when they can't get what they need.

Yeh, but that's their fault, for hogging the poverty all to themselves.

[Seth]

My sister just came home. She was in hospital, waiting for a gallstones operation, which was done without breaking the skin, down the throat with cameras and stuff. A tiny procedure on the bile duct allowed the stones to pass.
It was scheduled for thursday, and done on tuesday. (early).

And yesterday was the forty fourth day this year, that I didn't have to worry about health insurance.
And neither did my family or neighbours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy.

Right. All you really have to worry about is actual health CARE. Socialized medicine runs fine until the OPM runs out, then it fails catastrophically, leaving large populations with no medical care at all because all the for-profit systems that used to survive by adapting to changing economic conditions have been pushed out of business by the government. When the government quits paying the NHS doctors and workers, the whole fucking thing goes down the shitter in a matter of weeks and you'll be back to chewing willow bark for the salicylic acid and packing wounds with moss.

Good fucking luck when that happens, as it must.

Until then enjoy your thievery.

[Seth]

there's no freedom for the poor, when they can't get what they need.

Yeh, but that's their fault, for hogging the poverty all to themselves.

Yes, socialists would like everyone to share in the poverty and despair of economic collapse and starvation because it's "fair" that way...

[FBM]

And the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is...

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

medical bills.

[Hermit]

And the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is...

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

medical bills.

Pettyfroggery.

Bankruptcy is the result of Marxist taxation. It is excessive, and misdirected. In a truly free country there'll be next to none. That's because only essential bodies will be funded with tax money - the ones ending with "A": CIA, NSA and NRA. The rest gets SFA. You see, the solution is that simple.

[FBM]

I didn't fall for it this time.

[JimC]

A thread starting with "Socialised" is guaranteed to get a visit from Seth...

It's Pavlovian...

[Seth]

And the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is...

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

medical bills.

And guess what, that's exactly what bankruptcy is for, so that one can discharge crippling debts that would, in an earlier age, have landed one in debtor's prison.

Having to declare bankruptcy is hardly the end of the world. You can actually get credit easier after a bankruptcy because creditors know you can't file again for seven years.

How does the fact that someone was unprepared to deal with medical bills (probably because they really wanted that 60-inch LED HDTV) justify dunning everyone else in society for their medical bills? Prudence dictates that the individual should plan carefully for such catastrophic events and if necessary purchase an insurance policy with their own money to cover that peril.

[Seth]

A thread starting with "Socialised" is guaranteed to get a visit from Seth...

It's Pavlovian...

Not nearly as Pavlovian as the slobbering, slavering response to any impugning of Marxism on the part of the local socialists.

[FBM]

And the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in the US is...

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

medical bills.

And guess what, that's exactly what bankruptcy is for, so that one can discharge crippling debts that would, in an earlier age, have landed one in debtor's prison.

Having to declare bankruptcy is hardly the end of the world. You can actually get credit easier after a bankruptcy because creditors know you can't file again for seven years.

How does the fact that someone was unprepared to deal with medical bills (probably because they really wanted that 60-inch LED HDTV) justify dunning everyone else in society for their medical bills? Prudence dictates that the individual should plan carefully for such catastrophic events and if necessary purchase an insurance policy with their own money to cover that peril.

How about those of us who have a non-debilitating medical condition that doesn't qualify as a disability, but that no for-profit insurance company will get near?

[Rum]

My sister just came home. She was in hospital, waiting for a gallstones operation, which was done without breaking the skin, down the throat with cameras and stuff. A tiny procedure on the bile duct allowed the stones to pass.
It was scheduled for thursday, and done on tuesday. (early).

And yesterday was the forty fourth day this year, that I didn't have to worry about health insurance.
And neither did my family or neighbours.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy.

Right. All you really have to worry about is actual health CARE. Socialized medicine runs fine until the OPM runs out, then it fails catastrophically, leaving large populations with no medical care at all because all the for-profit systems that used to survive by adapting to changing economic conditions have been pushed out of business by the government. When the government quits paying the NHS doctors and workers, the whole fucking thing goes down the shitter in a matter of weeks and you'll be back to chewing willow bark for the salicylic acid and packing wounds with moss.

Good fucking luck when that happens, as it must.

What a selfish bastard of a cunt you are.
Until then enjoy your thievery.