The insurance I have through work seems pretty good, at least for my level of general health: $20 copays for office visits and it at least pays most of test costs. (The only bill that's made my eyebrows zoom up was for the emergency room visit when I blew out my knee - that was one fucking expensive gel bandage, apparently!) In addition, my family's GP is acceptable to the plan, and I wouldn't give him up if I had any other options, including digging ditches for premium money.
Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.
Wash ,'War Stories'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2009 1:14:11 pm PDT #3312 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
brenda m - Aug 11, 2009 1:16:48 pm PDT #3313 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Pretty much Erika. Here's a sampling from one site. [link] The difference is with Rahm they're all (basically) true.
RAHM EMANUEL SENT A ROTTING FISH TO A POLLSTER HE DIDN'T LIKE
WHEN DONORS OFFER RAHM EMANUEL $5,000 CHECKS, HE HANGS THE FUCK UP ON THEM
RAHM EMANUEL'S LITTLE BROTHER ARI IS THE REAL-LIFE INSPIRATION FOR ARI ON ENTOURAGE
RAHM EMANUEL DECLARED HIS ENEMIES "DEAD" WHILE REPEATEDLY STABBING A STEAK KNIFE INTO THE TABLE
RAHM EMANUEL TELLS PEOPLE TO FUCK OFF BY SHOWING THEM THE SPACE WHERE HIS RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER USED TO BE
Toddson - Aug 11, 2009 1:31:11 pm PDT #3314 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
My health care is actually very good, considering - three years ago I had a stroke and spent three days in the critical care unit. I had a CT scan, an MRI, an echocardiogram, a trans-esophegal echocardiogram, an EEG, and for the first 24 hours hourly BP checks. I SAW the bill - $19K - but didn't have to pay anything.
I'm lucky - I know it.
StuntHusband - Aug 11, 2009 1:50:02 pm PDT #3315 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
I want what the ex's father got in Spain.
Massive heart attack. Heart kerblewie. (That was a horrible phone call to listen to one half of in panicky Spanish.) Heart transplant or die.
A donor organ was found in about 3 weeks. (Tragically, youngsters drive stupid-fast over there.)
The whole operation - including medical transport from the Canaries to Madrid and extended apartment rental for Alfredo's mother, who was going to be next to her husband OR ELSE - and all aftercare:
Free. State-controlled. That was 7 years ago, he's doing just fine thanks, and it has never, ever cost them anything except time (and considerable pain...well, and Senior Mendez hates being told "you may not drive - too stressful, you'll blow out your NEW heart"...so a fair bit of crank on his part.)
I want that.
Sue - Aug 11, 2009 2:27:17 pm PDT #3316 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I can't even begin to tell you how baffling I find this whole debate. I am so far to one side of this debate that I can only sit in the corner muttering, clutching my single payer health care close, and not even thinking about medical expenses.
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2009 2:34:23 pm PDT #3317 of 30001
brillig
I love my coverage, it plus Medicare means Hubby nearly never has to pay for anything, and he just had a CT of his head yesterday. All the surgeries, tests, stuff, and thingies, covered. God bless our doctors, 99% of them have been stellar.
May the insurance drones who decide not to give him his drugs and change their minds on whether a surgery is "elective" burn in hell.
Trudy Booth - Aug 11, 2009 2:37:30 pm PDT #3318 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, the fact that I can't tell you how much my surgery was because I never got a bill? Priceless.
Who were you working for and can you write me a reference?
Gudanov - Aug 11, 2009 2:39:52 pm PDT #3319 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I have fab insurance too, but I've switched employers enough (even without switching jobs) to know that it could end tomorrow.
Glamcookie - Aug 11, 2009 2:41:19 pm PDT #3320 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I also have wonderful coverage. Paid for most of my IVF costs, which many people tell me is unheard of.
P.M. Marc - Aug 11, 2009 2:41:27 pm PDT #3321 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Texting is not for conversations
It's for writing several thousand words of drawerfic while you're bored and in transit.
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Ask Cass. She knows.
I can't even begin to tell you how baffling I find this whole debate. I am so far to one side of this debate that I can only sit in the corner muttering, clutching my single payer health care close, and not even thinking about medical expenses.
You and most of Canada.
I am merely Legally Canadian, and I'm in a constant state of o.0 right now.