The Many Faces of US Politics...

[Jell 0 Biafra]

She knows it's the real firemen and not the stripper firemen, right?

[Eamonnca1]

Hear the one about the woman in San Francisco that was knocked off her bike by a car driver and said "don't call an ambulance, I can't afford one"?

That actually happened.

[Armagh18]

Hear the one about the woman in San Francisco that was knocked off her bike by a car driver and said "don't call an ambulance, I can't afford one"?

That actually happened.

I'm sure stuff like that happens regularly

[Milltown Row2]

Where did whiteys post go? 

That footballer probably would have been better off in Ireland considering he caught a bug in hospital nearly died of it

[whitey]

Where did whiteys post go? 

That footballer probably would have been better off in Ireland considering he caught a bug in hospital nearly died of it

LOL-I'm trying not to go down the rabbit hole

That guy got $1M + of care no questions asked brought directly from a Gaelic football pitch no insurance card

I'm sure the hospital wrote most of it off as they'd have no way of collecting anyway

If you think the level of care in Ireland is superior to what we get over here, you're entitled to that belief but having lived here for close to 40 years I have a completely different lived experience.

Why did your buddy Gerry Adams come over here for his cancer surgery?

[Milltown Row2]

Where did whiteys post go? 

That footballer probably would have been better off in Ireland considering he caught a bug in hospital nearly died of it

LOL-I'm trying not to go down the rabbit hole

That guy got $1M + of care no questions asked brought directly from a Gaelic football pitch no insurance card

I'm sure the hospital wrote most of it off as they'd have no way of collecting anyway

If you think the level of care in Ireland is superior to what we get over here, you're entitled to that belief but having lived here for close to 40 years I have a completely different lived experience.

Why did your buddy Gerry Adams come over here for his cancer surgery?

No doubt wrote it off because they gave him a life threatening bug ffs! You're a gas

[whitey]

Where did whiteys post go? 

That footballer probably would have been better off in Ireland considering he caught a bug in hospital nearly died of it

LOL-I'm trying not to go down the rabbit hole

That guy got $1M + of care no questions asked brought directly from a Gaelic football pitch no insurance card

I'm sure the hospital wrote most of it off as they'd have no way of collecting anyway

If you think the level of care in Ireland is superior to what we get over here, you're entitled to that belief but having lived here for close to 40 years I have a completely different lived experience.

Why did your buddy Gerry Adams come over here for his cancer surgery?

No doubt wrote it off because they gave him a life threatening bug ffs! You're a gas

I m sure you're just winding me up but I assume you knew the following before making such a stupid statement

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6656405/#:~:text=Intubation%20for%20longer%20periods%20is,patients%20requires%20intubation%20%5B26%5D.

Intubation for longer periods is also associated with a higher risk of MRSA-associated VAP, increasing the risk of occurrence by 6 to 21-fold as opposed to patients who are not intubated [24]. The risk of developing pneumonia increases between 1% and 3% each day a patients requires intubation






 

[Milltown Row2]

If you can point out where I said that the levels of care in American hospitals I'll take it back, you brought up a link to an Irish lad that was punched in the head and during his care he developed mrsa and pneumonia!

You took it down for some reason and I asked why?

[whitey]

If you can point out where I said that the levels of care in American hospitals I'll take it back, you brought up a link to an Irish lad that was punched in the head and during his care he developed mrsa and pneumonia!

You took it down for some reason and I asked why?

The point I was making was that he got $1M plus of the best care in the world that saved his life (with the hospital having a slim to zero chance of being able to demand payment)


I took it down immediately because I figured why bother-you'll  believe whatever you want to believe anyway

(And then, on queue you added a snide comment about the infection, actually stating "the hospital gave it to him")

But you know what-you enjoy your crappy NHS and roll the dice if anything serious happens you or your family. I'll make do with having unfettered access to the best healthcare in the world

[Milltown Row2]

If you can point out where I said that the levels of care in American hospitals I'll take it back, you brought up a link to an Irish lad that was punched in the head and during his care he developed mrsa and pneumonia!

You took it down for some reason and I asked why?

The point I was making was that he got $1M plus of the best care in the world that saved his life (with the hospital having a slim to zero chance of being able to demand payment)


I took it down immediately because I figured why bother-you'll  believe whatever you want to believe anyway

(And then, on queue you added a snide comment about the infection, actually stating "the hospital gave it to him")

But you know what-you enjoy your crappy NHS and roll the dice if anything serious happens you or your family. I'll make do with having unfettered access to the best healthcare in the world

You took it down simply because it actually showed that incident going against your point.

so have you found the post where I was saying US hospitals are rubbish?

As for the best hospitals, you've claimed you are coming back, back at an age when your health will be at its worst, good luck

[whitey]

Actually it doesn't

My point was that an uninsured Irish guys life was saved with $1M + of medical care
With minimal chance of payment.

The infection is irrelevant and it would have been a miracle if he didn't get one per my link

" Intubation for longer periods is also associated with a higher risk of MRSA-associated VAP, increasing the risk of occurrence by 6 to 21-fold as opposed to patients who are not intubated [24]. The risk of developing pneumonia increases between 1% and 3% each day a patients requires intubation"

[Puckoon]

CEO shooter caught in a McDonalds in Pennsylvania. Identified by a McDonalds worker who called the cops. WTF.

Had fake ID in the name of the hostel room rental, had a gun similar to the murder weapon and a 3 page manifesto against capitalist America.

All that trouble to go incognito to get busted in a venue that is the epitome of capitalist America - a fuckin McDonalds.

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Some of his online footprint is interesting - a big fan of the Unabomber it seems

[Eamonnca1]

CEO shooter caught in a McDonalds in Pennsylvania. Identified by a McDonalds worker who called the cops. WTF.

Had fake ID in the name of the hostel room rental, had a gun similar to the murder weapon and a 3 page manifesto against capitalist America.

All that trouble to go incognito to get busted in a venue that is the epitome of capitalist America - a fuckin McDonalds.

That McDonald's will be getting boycotted now. I wonder if the inevitable GoFundMe rakes in more than the one Kyle Rittenhouse got.

[johnnycool]

What's the verdict on the health care system in America? Are we better off over here or is it much the same?

Really it depends on the severity of the issue and your personal situation with insurance and money for bills.

Northern Ireland
3 weeks ago in Ireland my mother fell in the kitchen. She waited 2 hours on the floor for an ambulance, then waited in a chair in a hallway in the Erne for almost 36 hours prior to getting a bed after her X rays and scans.
She went half days without being seen or talked to after her proper admittance to the Erne and spent 6 days there total sharing a ward bed with other patients present and no privacy except a curtain. She was at times frustrated with her experience and care that was being administered.
She's home now.

America
On Friday of last week my wife took a Grand Mal seizure in our living room while sitting in a chair (in America). It was a second event, first having happened in September. We had just paid off her first event bill, which came to us around $35,000. That included an ambulance ride to the hospital ($7,000). Our insurance kicked in and we paid about $2,000 out of pocket.

Within 60 minutes of the Seizure my wife was in the ER, had had an emergency EKG and CAT scan. Within 12 hours she had had an additional EEG, MRI, and Ultrasound as well as multiple administrations of anti seizure medications, IV administrations of amino acids and electrolytes. She stayed 3 nights in her own private room, and I expect this bill to be around $50,000 before our insurance kicks in. Our deductible is close to having been met for the calendar year, so I expect our out of pocket to be around $1200 for this on the upper end. If it happens again in 2025 our deductible will be back at Zero and I will probably have to pay the full $5k maximum out of pocket.

EDIT: She also broke 2 teeth during the Seizure so that's gonna be a $calping as well.

How much would you be paying a month on your insurance plan? I know it could well be tied into your salary if through a work plan, but ball park it for us ignoramus' ?