Americans surely have the best medical facilities and staff. Christ, remember Marcus Welby?? That House guy is incredible (though he hides the fact he's English - and the blonde guy is Aussie). Your hospitals are second to none. I imagine they are all like St. Elsewhere, with lots of Ed Begley Jnr's running around.
We have free health care, so i dont really care.
7th July 2007 08:24 AM
lotsajizz
you get what you pay for
7th July 2007 08:42 AM
Ten Thousand Motels
quote:corgi37 wrote:
We have free health care, so i dont really care.
Yes,,,but you guys don't have a 500 billion dollar a year military to maintain. It cost good money to be the world's policeman.
7th July 2007 09:31 AM
Gazza
quote:JixxerJay wrote:
full length version of sicko
Excellent first post. I hope you stick around at least until "Shine A light" comes out!
quote:pdog wrote:
I'm watching Sicko tonight! For free.... hope Moore don't mind!
Apparently he doesn't....
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1834856020070618?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&pageNumber=1
[Edited by Gazza]
7th July 2007 02:54 PM
pdog
This talk about Socialized medicine and having to wait for treatment reminds me of my experience in 1996... I blew my knee out, I had Kaiser Insurance. It was almost 6 months of waiting before they finally performed the needed surgery...
I had a stomach infection in 1994, and I knew it. Took almost two months of being sick before they ran the tests I was begging for, I lost alot of weight and finally the tests showed what I thought was wrong, and got an RX, and was better within a week.
We spend hundreds of dollars every month to an inurance company, for a feling of security, even though, they papaer pushers have tried denying us medicine, and treatments, and we're lucky, nothing like what you saw in Sicko.
I think I want to moe to France and live with Egon... I hope he wants to adopt an American family...
7th July 2007 03:03 PM
GotToRollMe
quote:Gazza wrote:
Excellent first post. I hope you stick around at least until "Shine A light" comes out!
No kidding! After watching that last night I'm seriously considering moving to the UK.
7th July 2007 03:09 PM
pdog
quote:GotToRollMe wrote:
No kidding! After watching that last night I'm seriously considering moving to the UK.
How about an American hero being denied help b/c of some bueracrat paper pusher, only to get help in Cuba. Moore's can be over the top, but somethings are just simple. Like the WTC volunteers, who risked everything, and now casn't get treatment b/c our system is about making money by denying care...
7th July 2007 03:23 PM
GotToRollMe
quote:pdog wrote:
How about an American hero being denied help b/c of some bueracrat paper pusher, only to get help in Cuba. Moore's can be over the top, but somethings are just simple. Like the WTC volunteers, who risked everything, and now casn't get treatment b/c our system is about making money by denying care...
From personal experience, I knew it was bad over here. But that is downright evil.
7th July 2007 03:55 PM
sirmoonie
Health care in the U.S. is expensive and sub-par because 95% of U.S. physicians are overpaid, lazy and incompetent. If it wasn't for pharmaceutical and medical device companies (mostly European), those friggin' hacks would still be using voodoo and leeches.
7th July 2007 03:59 PM
fireontheplatter
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
Health care in the U.S. is expensive and sub-par because 95% of U.S. physicians are overpaid, lazy and incompetent. If it wasn't for pharmaceutical and medical device companies (mostly European), those friggin' hacks would still be using voodoo and leeches.
and potions
7th July 2007 04:06 PM
sirmoonie
quote:fireontheplatter wrote:
and potions
Exactly, biffmonger. Fredakin' smackin' potions and stuff. Them holier-than-thou, hocus pocus dealing, pissneck bastards, they couldn't fix a goddam hangnail if their bogus licenses depended on it!
7th July 2007 04:08 PM
Ten Thousand Motels
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
Health care in the U.S. is expensive and sub-par because 95% of U.S. physicians are overpaid, lazy and incompetent. If it wasn't for pharmaceutical and medical device companies (mostly European), those friggin' hacks would still be using voodoo and leeches.
I don't know if that's true or not.
But it wouldn't surprise me. But are the doctors "overpaid-overcharge" because of the high costs of insurance. At least thats what they say. Personally I've only had one run in with the medical establishment....when my aorta busted 3 years ago. But I'm ready to quit again. Fuck their medecine. They jumped one of my scripts from 22.00 to 37.00 last month. I'm glad I'm heathy apart from that.
Them and the Satellite TV companies.
So who you gonna vote for in 2008?
Capone or Moran?
7th July 2007 04:10 PM
pdog
The earth will die in the next 50 years, so who cares anyway!
7th July 2007 04:15 PM
sirmoonie
quote:Ten Thousand Motels wrote:
I don't know if that's true or not.
But it wouldn't surprise me. But are the doctors "overpaid-overcharge" because of the high costs of insurance. At least thats what they say. Personally I've only had one run in with the medical establishment....when my aorta busted 3 years ago.
So who you gonna vote for in 2008?
Capone or Moran?
It is true. Unlike many here, I don't post lies.
I'm voting for John McCain - a true American, intelligent, fair, knowledgeable about our system of government, great leader. And his wife likes to romp.
7th July 2007 04:19 PM
Ten Thousand Motels
quote:pdog wrote:
The earth will die in the next 50 years, so who cares anyway!
Pffft.....no Earth will still be here. You won't. I won't. But fuck it....we had a great run.
7th July 2007 04:22 PM
fireontheplatter
i will be 95 years old then....DAMN
7th July 2007 04:23 PM
Ten Thousand Motels
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
It is true. Unlike many here, I don't post lies.
I'm voting for John McCain - a true American, intelligent, fair, knowledgeable about our system of government, great leader. And his wife likes to romp.
I'm voting for Ron Paul. As of yesterday he's got more campaign money than McCain. I don't know much about his wife's romping habits though.
7th July 2007 04:28 PM
fireontheplatter
i better get my butt up to maine to do me some fly fishing and some moose hunting...before everything dies.
7th July 2007 04:32 PM
Gazza
quote:GotToRollMe wrote:
No kidding! After watching that last night I'm seriously considering moving to the UK.
Our health service is a disaster as well, although for different reasons to yours.
try Spain. Or, believe it or not, Cuba.
7th July 2007 05:29 PM
lotsajizz
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
Health care in the U.S. is expensive and sub-par because 95% of U.S. physicians are overpaid, lazy and incompetent. If it wasn't for pharmaceutical and medical device companies (mostly European), those friggin' hacks would still be using voodoo and leeches.
you have it backwards
7th July 2007 06:51 PM
mojoman
quote:Gazza wrote:
Excellent first post. I hope you stick around at least until "Shine A light" comes out!
Apparently he doesn't....
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN1834856020070618?feedType=RSS&rpc=22&pageNumber=1
[Edited by Gazza]
saw this on the same page
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0668797820070706
A friend of mine was this Japanese. He had a girlfriend in
Paris. He tried to date her in six months and eventually she
said yes. You know he took her to his apartment, cut off her
head. Put the rest of her body in the refrigerator, ate her
piece by piece. Put her in the refrigerator, put her in the
freezer. And when he ate her and took her bones to the Bois de
Boulogne, by chance a taxi driver noticed him burying the
bones. You don't believe me? Truth is stranger than fiction.
We drive through there every day
8th July 2007 04:00 PM
sirmoonie
quote:lotsajizz wrote:
you have it backwards
Highly unlikely. Highly.
8th July 2007 04:31 PM
gypsy
quote:sirmoonie wrote:
It is true. Unlike many here, I don't post lies.
I'm voting for John McCain - a true American, intelligent, fair, knowledgeable about our system of government, great leader. And his wife likes to romp.
It's true - he don't post lies.
McCain has my vote as well.
I had no idea the missus enjoyed a good romp - sounds like a woman after my own heart.
9th July 2007 10:46 AM
Joey
quote:gypsy wrote:
I had no idea the missus enjoyed a good romp - sounds like a woman after my own heart.
Come to Joeykins ...
9th July 2007 12:00 PM
Starbuck
some/most doctors work their asses off. i know; i'm married to one. she is officially part time and she works on average 45 hours a week. and no, no porsches in the garage. porsches are reserved for specialists - primary care docs only make between $110 and $150 or so. not a lot if you consider it takes 8 years of school and a three year residency at the least (some residencies are longer) before you can begin your practice.
the problem with the health care system is not in doctor salaries but with lawyers. and insurance companies, of course. if we limited the amount of dough a lawyer could make off a malpractice suit, that would bring down insurance costs for doctors and relieve a huge excess burden on the whole health care industry.
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