Speaking of which
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The total amount of time I spent dealing with healthcare administration/finances last year? Aboot 1 hour. And in the decade I lived in Oz, probably another hour. Progress, I donât think the US is doing it right.
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Oh yeahâŚlook at his personal FBâŚa real 'thumper.
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I suspect that thereâs going to come a point where the commons, to survive, will find it necessary to simply dispense with such barriers.
3D printing etcâŚ
Luckily he wonât need to, with all the free press heâs getting via this story.
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I would love to hear the explanation but, funny enough, people who say such stupid things always seem to be smart enough to know their position is indefensible.
Theyâre also unwilling to admit to being wrong, though, which is one reason we canât have nice things.
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We donât have to worry about patents/etc⌠We have a natural organic source already:
We just need to drill baby drillâŚ
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This is the second healthcare-related story Iâve read in the past hour (the other was on Ars). In both cases, someone (or several someones, at Ars) in the comments had the brilliant idea of just not being so damn poor if you want to be able to not die at the hands of our shit-ass âhealthâ âcareâ âsystemâ. Itâs not hard, they say. Just put away money in your savings account every month and stop being such a god damn slacker! If you donât, itâs not because you canât afford to, itâs always because youâre lazy, or youâre wasting your money on frivolities (like a new BMW, to use the ludicrous example from one of the Ars posters) instead of being a Fiscally Responsible Poor Person Who Is Never Allowed A Moment Of Happiness In Your Miserable Fucking Life.
Itâs a damn good thing I canât set fire to people with my mind, or theyâd have a ton of sudden, unexpected medical bills to spend their self-lauded rainy day funds on.
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Itâs going to get pretty fucking dire, and the people who need these items wonât be able to afford proper 3D printers that do anything more than halfassed ABS. Printing McDonalds toys for their kids isnât going to fix crushing poverty.
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Iâm solidly middle-class. Maybe even âupperâ (although not so much with the cost of living here). I have insurance. And yet, when I had cancer we had to pay almost $10,000 out of pocket for my surgeries and treatment. We had to borrow against our 401k to pay the bills.
Thatâs with a low six-figure household income, insurance, and savings. How anyone making $50k or less is supposed to be able to afford to stay alive is beyond me.
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Sounds like a homeschooler to me.
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As sister Rand said, the only morality is that of the market and of the self. /s
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Can we please leave grits out of it? I intellectually appreciate the alliteration, but quality cheese grits are yummy, yummy, yum, yum. Maybe god, Guns and Gestapo? Not as clever, I readily admit, but I do love grits.
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Let me guess⌠it is going to turn out that his email was hackedâŚ
I hope the dude stands by it and then loses his next election.
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Whoa, the irony here is astounding. So, in trying to research why generic insulin isnât available to people who canât afford brand, you are denied access. Hence, the entire impetus for the Open Access movement in publishing.
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Hold on there, please. It ainât that the libraries donât want to buy access â they canât afford it. I could tell you stories about the cost of subscriptions that would curl your hair. Letâs please not blame the libraries â they are at the forefront of the Open Access movement to make all research, government funded or not, available to you, me, and Aunt Sally down the street.
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Iâm just annoyed my library didnât have it. Thatâs actually quite rare. My library typically has access to any study I need.
Iâm not blaming them really. Itâs not their fault that Nature or Science is like $20k/yr for institutional licensing.
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When my father had cancer, his doctor actually advised my well-insured (and US-born) parents to get treatment, sell the house and leave the country to avoid being financially ruined if the insurance didnât go through. Luckily it didnât come to that, given that the treatment quickly turned into end-of-life care, as I canât imagine my mother would have lived very long had she been forced out of the country and forced to live by herself without any sort of social support network.
Fuck this state rep with a cactus, sideways.
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