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Somfin posted:Holy gently caress. My favourite one was when they proposed creating an Upper House in Parliament (we only have the one house), but to attach all the seats to the ceiling of the existing Chamber. This is when they were reaching out to the Transcendental Meditation Party.
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I've got a single-payer story, from a single-payer nation, for some perspective: In Australia, where I live, I had an anal abscess. [DO NOT GOOGLE THAT]. I waited 4 months for treatment in the national health system, and got treated for free. I guess it was sorted out adequately, after they had the second go at it. You get what you pay for. When my wife had an exceptionally poor surgeon slice open her bladder while removing rampant endometriosis, we were faced with two choices: sit her on a gurney in a public hospital corridor for 36 hours in agony, (and low but real percentage chance of death), or go "Private", to a profit-making hospital, for about $6,000 of your US money and get it sorted rightaway. Easy question because we had some credit left, not everyone has that. My wayward points are these: Single Payer rocks if that is like the NHS in the UK or Public in Aus or NZ, I fully support socialised medicine, yet You get what you pay for, And in an emergency it is good to have private options, These private options will cost you. Hope that helps! Edit: We didn't have health insurance. It sounds mental to people in the US, but down here it does sometimes make sense to self-insure Vandalseed fucked around with this message at 07:43 on May 9, 2017 |
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