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How much do co-pays usually cost? My buddy's was about 7 USD for group therapy and I think 10 USD to see a psychiatrist. That was just for some 'minor' grief counseling. Nothing like for aspergers or schizophrenia or something. Benny are you afraid if tapping into your burger fund for copay?
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A heroin addiction is the best therapy there is. Choose life, Benny.
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Wedemeyer posted:How much do co-pays usually cost? My buddy's was about 7 USD for group therapy and I think 10 USD to see a psychiatrist. That was just for some 'minor' grief counseling. Nothing like for aspergers or schizophrenia or something. Benny are you afraid if tapping into your burger fund for copay? Completely depends on your plan. On the plan I get through my job, I pay $25 for most doctor visits, and I think $12 per prescription (or some ridiculous amount if they're not generic drugs), and I feel like that's pretty typical. If Benny's covered under his parents' insurance, I'd guess that's roughly what he's looking at. Which, if you've got no income and have allegedly been contributing to household expenses from your savings except probably not really because you're a compulsive liar, could certainly feel too expensive to be worthwhile, even though it's really not. If he's eligible for Medicaid or whatever else California offers in that line (and he might not be if his parents' income counts), he might (or might not, I only really know how Minnesota's system works) be looking at substantially lower copayments, if he has any at all.
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Mental health is usually covered differently than 'normal' doctors. My plan is $20 to see a PCP or $60 to see a mental health professional. But, if I remember right he went through county or city services to get matched up with a low-cost provider, who usually see people on a sliding scale.
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California is MediCal and you can only get services in your county or some other restrictive area like that, so it has a little hiccup. But nothing like Benny is imagining I'm sure.
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docbeard posted:Completely depends on your plan. On the plan I get through my job, I pay $25 for most doctor visits, and I think $12 per prescription (or some ridiculous amount if they're not generic drugs), and I feel like that's pretty typical. If Benny's covered under his parents' insurance, I'd guess that's roughly what he's looking at. Which, if you've got no income and have allegedly been contributing to household expenses from your savings except probably not really because you're a compulsive liar, could certainly feel too expensive to be worthwhile, even though it's really not. I don't know why on earth you think Benny's parents, only one of whom is employed last we heard and whom he has vaguely hinted may not be US Citizens, have health insurance, much less health insurance as good as yours. He's abandoned the thread because he's a dumb idiot baby who gets off on being a dumb idiot baby so we'll never know for sure, but you should know that not everyone has the same healthcare options as you.
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cname posted:Pretty much this + I'm sure it costs some miniscule amount of money that Benny can't/won't come up with. IE: If something he really wanted was the same price as the co-pay, he would likely find a way to get it. He could probably ask his mom for some spending money for his therapy and medicine. She could even remind him to take his pills. Benny leaving this thread is the first non-stupid thing he's done since the thread started. If he actually gets to volunteer at the library, I can totally picture the library staff seeing him as some weird guy that takes forever to organize anything or wipe tables, who is always talking about this novel he's writing to anyone who will listen. Then all his thunderdome entries will be about libraries. This might be all Benny is capable of and he's probably happy with it.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I don't know why on earth you think Benny's parents, only one of whom is employed last we heard and whom he has vaguely hinted may not be US Citizens, have health insurance, much less health insurance as good as yours. He's abandoned the thread because he's a dumb idiot baby who gets off on being a dumb idiot baby so we'll never know for sure, but you should know that not everyone has the same healthcare options as you. Oh, I'm not taking it as read that Benny's parents have health insurance, much less health insurance that covers him as well, just raising it as a possibility. Without confirmation (or indeed with confirmation) from Benny, everything here is speculation. I'm well aware of the state of health coverage in the U.S., even with the advent of the ACA, but fair enough bringing it up all the same. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to light some cigars with some hundred dollar bills, a tradition that absolutely everyone, I assume, can participate in.
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docbeard posted:Now if you'll excuse me, I have to light some cigars with some hundred dollar bills, a tradition that absolutely everyone, I assume, can participate in. Smoke em if ya got em 
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I don't know why on earth you think Benny's parents, only one of whom is employed last we heard and whom he has vaguely hinted may not be US Citizens, have health insurance, much less health insurance as good as yours. He's abandoned the thread because he's a dumb idiot baby who gets off on being a dumb idiot baby so we'll never know for sure, but you should know that not everyone has the same healthcare options as you. Adult baby. That's why he left.
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Well, Joe Biden* just tweeted me that next Monday is last signing-up day, so let's hope that happens if Benny needs it. I might privately laugh at him, but I really don't want the guy and others like him to suffer. */ if you're a goon**, Mr Veep: great job tweeting that several times daily for the last weeks. It practically made me sign up, and I'm not even American. **/ he better be.
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Perfidia posted:Well, Joe Biden* just tweeted me that next Monday is last signing-up day, so let's hope that happens if Benny needs it. I might privately laugh at him, but I really don't want the guy and others like him to suffer. Not that you aren't allowed to or anything, just curious - why do you follow Joe Biden on twitter if you're not American?
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Xenocides posted:Benny's Lament (to the tune of Empty Chairs at Empty Tables) I recorded this, I hope you don't mind. http://www.colorfinger.net/stuffo/bennysLament.mp3 Colorfinger fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Mar 27, 2014 |
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Mar 25, 2014 06:40
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Colorfinger posted:
I think I love you. Close up shop, nothing greater can come from this thread.
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Mar 25, 2014 06:57
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Colorfinger posted:I recorded this, I hope you don't mind. I love you and I want to have your babies. I think I owe you an apology though. Some of the lyrics were hard to match with the tune but you did a good job with it.
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Colorfinger posted:I recorded this, I hope you don't mind. Best thing to come out of E/N ever
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Oh my god. That was amazing. Colorfinger you rule.
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That poor crazy Benny's gone and put his head right into the sand. Song was amazing. I do have to wonder if Benny even comes here anymore or if the good advice was so overwhelming he could no longer block it out.
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Of course Benny reads this thread it's not like he's got anything else to do. That song is awesome!
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CrazyTolradi posted:That poor crazy Benny's gone and put his head right into the sand. Song was amazing. I do have to wonder if Benny even comes here anymore or if the good advice was so overwhelming he could no longer block it out. There's not been an influx of hugboxing, so Benny's got no reason to post.
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Benny neither lost nor got a dishonorable mention in the Thunderdome this week! Good job!
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Colorfinger posted:
This is wonderful. 
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Colorfinger posted:
All we need now is a Benny animation by Everdraed to go with this and e/n can die happy.
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Colorfinger posted:I recorded this, I hope you don't mind.  CellarDweller posted:I assume it has to do with everyone finding out about the adult baby fetish. Darth123123 posted:Adult baby. That's why he left. He's posted five times after that particular revelation. Are you just forgetting about his superpower of being able to cherry-pick only the things he wants to respond to? He's had similar gaps in the past, I wouldn't read too much into it. A little speculative fetish mudslinging isn't going to stop ARE BENNY. Ursine Asylum posted:There's not been an influx of hugboxing, so Benny's got no reason to post. That's more likely the case. Y'know it just dawned on me - Ben deserves props for bucking an e/n trend - 127 pages and a year+ later and he still left his OP intact. Of course that could merely be down to  , but I like to hope he's committed, if clueless.
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I recorded this, I hope you don't mind. http://www.colorfinger.net/stuffo/bennysLament.mp3 [/quote] Beauty. Pure beauty. Close E/N, it has served its purpose.
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Colorfinger posted:
Holy poo poo.
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I really hope he got the volunteer position at the library and has health insurance. It probably won't lead to a job, but hopefully it'll cause the lights to switch on and he'll realize "drat, no wonder I was unemployable. This is what it takes to be a good employee in today's economy." The song is awesome though, so the thread was completely worth it. cname fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Mar 25, 2014 |
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Colorfinger posted:
Well it won't get much better than this until everdraed posts a benny gif with this song attached. Well played sir.
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Lolie posted:All we need now is a Benny animation by Everdraed to go with this and e/n can give all their golden manbabies 555. Veskit posted:Well it won't get much better than this until everdraed posts a benny gif with this song attached. Well played, goon sire. Jesus, Everdraed is a talented animator, but this "summoning" bullshit is embarrassingly goony poo poo. You gonna ask for a bigpeeler/hakan story about Benny, or maybe a Game Quoter appropriate screen cap next? Even Benny has managed to not pre-emptively rip the arse out of a joke 
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Not that you aren't allowed to or anything, just curious - why do you follow Joe Biden on twitter if you're not American? Uncle Salty posted:Joe Biden is a bit of a comic figure, no? Right, that was the plan, but it's actually really boring because it's "the office of the VP" and no hilarious Onion-style Bidenisms. Can't un-follow now, though, or I'll go on the terrorism list. But now evidence shows I should follow Colorfinger instead! (Beautiful!)
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THIS IS AMAZING. Benny, how's the library?
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buteruc posted:THIS IS AMAZING. Benny has abandoned this thread. He is focused on his writing now.
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Robot_Rumpus posted:Benny has abandoned this thread. He is focused on his writing now. Maybe if we all say "Benny The Snake" three times into a mirror at midnight he will return to us. Tomorrow.
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Anoulie posted:Benny neither lost nor got a dishonorable mention in the Thunderdome this week! Good job!
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We're all going to feel really silly when Benny puts a link to this thread in the acknowledgements section of his future bestseller.
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If that were come to pass, I demand a handwritten thank you note delivered personally to everyone in this thread.
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Aqua Bear posted:We're all going to feel really silly when Benny puts a link to this thread in the acknowledgements section of his future bestseller. We all know he'd put that in the foreword by means of an accidental cut-and-paste in the middle of an unrelated sentence. Other writers would go "oops, silly me!" and clean up the mistake. Benny will see the mistake and go "oh well I know that that's wrong but I wasn't meaning for this to be my best book" and leave it right there.
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