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Don't hate the game just because of one frail player.

If police are above the law

That's what we call 'beggaring the question'.

Nah. The william Hurt miniseries. But this one's gonna be gorgeous.

"why can't you just say yes or no?" will be the whine. It'll be followed up with the "why do you love genocide?"

The guy quoted in the article is so false-consensus that it's almost more adorable than sad. Almost.

8hz&IP

Got my free COVID shot and my free flu shot 90metres away at the pharmacy. Strolled in, they pulled up my info on pharmanet, all good, let's do it. Out in 5.

We have a single wait-list if none are available. They email you when there's an opening at a PCP in the area, and you can veto or lemon-law two offers before you have to go around again.

And the Democrats still just talk about getting people affordable "coverage" and not affordable "care."

You want to review how the Republicans actually convinced people, especially in the poorest regions who'd benefit the most from a system of improved coverage and reduced cost, that it was a bad thing.

Democrats can't shoot for affordable care; they're trying to get coverage in the door, at least.

the wealthiest nation in the world can't keep its citizens healthy and out of debt.

But it can. The wealthiest nation in the world per capita is Luxembourg; then Switzerland. I think Norway finishes the top three. Excellent medical systems.

CUBA's consolidated single-payer healthcare system beats the US's #30 rank. And does it far, far cheaper. https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/best-healthcare-in-the-world/

As Jeff Daniels says in the first act of the first episode of Newsroom, " Yosemite?"

Traveller insurance can often offset it.

It's NOT like any other insurance.

Case in point: I rolled into the hospital with a sore arm. X-rays and an arm cast. But I left my wallet at home because my ride showed up early. "just phone down with your health number, if you could, so we can update the right file. Thanks!". 0$

Non-US case2: I felt a wave of dizziness on the way to work and almost browned out while driving. Pulled over. It passed and I drove 2 blocks to the hospital. Related my story and spent 8 hours in test after test, room after room. I got the full workup. $0

Non-US case 3: my dear friend collapsed while this wife was out getting Starbucks. Dumbstruck and in pain. He could only speed dial her number: 911 was too complex. She does 911 and races home (xkr-s) as the first ambulance arrives and lets them in. They stabilize while the specialized cardiac bus is arriving. "Follow us in. Look. We're gonna try for surrey but if he crashes we'll divert to rch(trauma center). We're gonna hit the lights, siren and punch it. Don't feel you need to-- [spots jaguar idling] okay. So keep up only if it's safe. We're going." SGH spotted something, not sure. Admitted for obs. Something was something, so it was a hot and loud bus to RCH anyway because it was serious and if he coded in traffic it would kill him. Heat up the trauma center o-r on a Sunday morning to apply 5 stents and prevent death by Widowmaker heart attack. He lives. Goes home in 2 weeks. $0

We're not even paying monthly premiums anymore. But I would. I'm at the top end of the income-based sliding scale and I'll pay it every damned month.

US example: dude rolls into wrong hospital while unconscious after soccer collision. Concussion. Tylenol. "Go home. Don't fall asleep". $80k(trauma center)+$10(Tylenol).

My US example: IT. Great insurance as they like us (Unix dev). Northgate Hospital in WA as I'm an H1b imm'grint takin-yer-jerb. Roll in for a simple procedure to alleviate spinal pressure when a sinus (not that kind) isn't draining by itself. Advise the doc it's a common thing for me, and a local and a horse-needle will get it back in line. Doc lays in with a scalpel and butchers me. Charges $500 for the pleasure but the invoice of arbitrary charges I didn't have to pay was insane. Came home when my first h1 was up. Not looking back.

Americans have normalized low-key medical fear and avoidance that they don't realize; and they are missing chances to catch things before it costs them their house or their life; and defending medical-induced bankruptcy (which can't be discharged through bankruptcy) while completely blind to the fact that no other g8 is this objectively cruel to its own people.

My shop teacher worked with my dad on Ambulance. So not only could I not goof off, he showed pics convincing us not to anyway. #genX

Thank you for helping.

Avi Lewis: This is not just exceptionalism, the only word for it is supremacy.

Comma-splice right out of the gate. I hope a diploma or GED becomes a valued requirement to work at breachMedia.ca one day.

Because you are a Jew.

And I’ve been processing those four words for about 14 years.

Four words? Like Picard and the lights, I see 5.

I didn't expect it to actually drop. But Justin (let's be honest: Jagmeet bullying the minority reds) and his crew gave us something to tune and defend. Let's do both as its faults will certainly be the next thing the cruel blues will hope to stick.

Let me know when it creeps down to the rest of us and how much monthly premiums I'll gladly pay.

Agreed. Second-worst date movie ever. She was shellshocked and missed all the humour cues.

I changed my employer when that happened. "Work from anywhere" is in the contract.

Real soaps were on five days a week and were campy as fuck

You're going to be shocked to learn they're still on. Our channel 11 and 21 show the same thing in the mornings, but if she leaves the TV on when she goes to work and it's on the wrong one, about 10 or 11am it switches to the same soaps that my mom used to watch when I was a kid.

I asked my wife and there's still a victor, still a Penelope and like 4 Alecias, and they're still played by the same actors! Talk about a career of they're still on the same gig after 40 years. And one guy must be 90 now.

The stories seem less TeleNovela and more Real Housewives, though, as now I discover it's on the wrong channel when, instead of prim and proper news anchors, there's the sounds of screeching and cat fights in the living room and it disturbs a Teams call in my office.

I think the Brit one with the guy from Red Dwarf is still on, too.

I'm gonna be relieved when hand signals move back to just being sign language instead of dog-whistles.

Tell me how that could happen so I can read it over and over.