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Does it run to your squat toliet?
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Originally Posted by MechDeus
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Originally Posted by MarsKitten
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God, I hate US upload speeds, even if my connection is considered "good". I've been waiting for three years to get FIOS service and it's still not around my area.
As for shoes, it depends on the person's home. If the person has carpeting, the shoes usually come off before I walk around. I live in an apartment with no carpeting, so my shoes don't come off until it's time to relax.
Getting hurt without health insurance is a scary scenario. You open yourself up to expensive medical bills without it, especially if you don't earn much money. I'm very receptive to a well executed universal health plan, because I hate the scenario of Americans living in debt or near poverty because they are struggling to pay their medical bills.
Oh, shit. Are all campus speed's this bad?
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You can get rims these days for the loans those of us without at least upper-middle class parents have to take out to get a college education in order to even have a shot at getting a good enough job to afford health insurance?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
$1,500.
No.
No.
Not really.
Y'r welcome.
I tried 3 times to read this sentence and got confused as hell each time.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gas
Okay.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
Generally, emergency care will be provided regardless of insurance. However, the length of time you can stay in the hospital once the immediate emergency is over is a different story. Yoshi is of course heartless, and doesn't realize that he's already paying for lackluster healthcare for some people (forget about Medicare?) rather than effective healthcare for everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
Now, remember, the United States puts a lot of power in the hands of the individual states, so the situation varies significantly from one to another. Here in Tennessee we have TennCare to supplement Medicare for all TN citizens but because it's tied to the corrupt insurance companies it's become rife with graft and fraud.
Where I lived on a farm growing up it was a little of both. You keep your shoes on when you're in the kitchen or on the porch, but take them off before you go into the family room or the bedroom. Nowadays I just leave my shoes next to the chair I crash out on when I get home from work.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
Broadband isn't uncommon, but you're more likely to find it in pockets rather than entirely covering an area. The rates you get vary on provider.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
Street preachers are annoying. Blue laws / dry counties are worse. I mean, it's not like I can't live my life because of the hardcore bible beaters that surround me, but they do have an affect that is well beyond the bounds they should.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
No emergency room in the US can refuse someone, for ANYTHING. Many ppl w/o insurance use the emergency room for (relatively) minor issues. No gunshot or otherwise serious injury is turned away. Yes, those with non-life threatening injuries wait longer, but they will eventually be served.Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
Proof? Just see all the anti-illegal immigrant talk in this country (Boo!) that constantly complains about illegal immigrants using ("clogging") the e-room with their sick kids.
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Originally Posted by J2d
Case in point:
A close friend of mine has a terminal disease. He has no insurance and has run up a medical bill of $900,000. He STILL gets in at the University of Washington for regular checkups on his (rare) disease. There is no way, ever, he will repay those costs and he's basically just waiting to die. He still gets meds and plenty of medical attention from the best doctors in the world. They don't care what his financial situation is...he still goes there 2x a month and gets bi-monthly operations.
The vast majority of Americans believe in God and attend church regularly. Some of these Americans are "holy rollers" that are very gung-ho (see: Reed, Ralph). The majority are regular ppl that aren't all politically-religious and don't think prayer in school is the defining issue in American politics. (Proof? If the numbers of American church-goers were as hardcore about religious issues as some would have us believe, prayer in schools would be unanimously supported, abortion would be illegal, and gay marriage wouldn't even be an issue.)Quote:
Originally Posted by J2d
The point is that, although America is a religious country (see: high religious attendance compared to other industrialized countries), the US is still a nation of secular citizens. Many of those (church-going) citizens don't take their marching orders from their priests/pastors/imams.
We may go to church, but we understand the difference b/w the public and private spheres.