Topic: Random Rants/Health Care (Read 34132 times)

ivan · « **Reply #175 on:** November 17, 2009, 08:26:22 PM »

Yes, and where will all the unemployed American unicorn factory workers find jobs? The auto industry? Tech sector? Ha! Pure fantasy!

pbsaurus · « **Reply #176 on:** November 17, 2009, 09:10:28 PM »

Put their biomass to good use--in a biofuel fermenter.

ivan · « **Reply #177 on:** November 17, 2009, 09:30:55 PM »

Appetizing!

Wunderkind · « **Reply #178 on:** November 17, 2009, 11:55:09 PM »

SOYLENT GREEN is PEOPLE!!

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #179 on:** November 18, 2009, 02:13:50 AM »

uh, if got AIDS, why would I go to an ER at all? that makes no sense. I'd live for a couple years an then die, nothing anyone can do about it.

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #180 on:** November 18, 2009, 10:53:44 AM »

What the heck are you talking about. Magic Johnson has had AIDS for so long that people have forgotten he even has it. It's not exactly a death sentence anymore.

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #181 on:** November 18, 2009, 11:32:39 AM »

okay, so I don't exactly know my AIDS facts. in any case, I don see AIDS treatments getting so expensive that I couldn't possibly pay them.

ivan · « **Reply #182 on:** November 18, 2009, 11:46:38 AM »

Erm... Magic does not have AIDS. He is HIV positive. That's not the same as having AIDS.

And although life expectancy of people with HIV has been increased dramatically through drug treatments, there is still no cure for either HIV or AIDS.

ivan · « **Reply #183 on:** November 18, 2009, 11:54:10 AM »

In other words, for the purposes of this argument, if you get infected by HIV and have no medical coverage and no way of getting treated for free, you will probably get AIDS in a few months and then die a horrible death a few months after that. If you do have medical coverage, you'll be taking drugs for the rest of your life, but it will be a much, much longer one.

BizB · « **Reply #184 on:** November 18, 2009, 11:59:20 AM »

...with unicorns!

ivan · « **Reply #185 on:** November 18, 2009, 12:01:42 PM »

And let us not forget rainbows.

xolik · « **Reply #186 on:** November 18, 2009, 12:54:21 PM »

What if the factory produces HIV+ unicorns?

OH NOES

12AX7 · « **Reply #187 on:** November 18, 2009, 01:01:44 PM »

HIV + Unicr0ns = DISASTER!!

Joe Sixpack · « **Reply #188 on:** November 18, 2009, 05:12:34 PM »

Yeah that's true I guess.

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #189 on:** November 18, 2009, 05:17:34 PM »

Quote from: ivan on November 18, 2009, 11:54:10 AM

In other words, for the purposes of this argument, if you get infected by HIV and have no medical coverage and no way of getting treated for free, you will probably get AIDS in a few months and then die a horrible death a few months after that. If you do have medical coverage, you'll be taking drugs for the rest of your life, but it will be a much, much longer one.

and whose to say I can't actually, you know, pay for my own treatment?

yes it would be really expensive but considering it would be my life at stake I would probably be able to scrounge up the money. And hopefully somebody comes up with a cure before I'm dead.

and since, odds are, I wont get HIV, not having health insurance is probably the best way to go for me. but if Pelosi/Obama/Reed/Hillary force me to have it, well then I am getting ripped off.

ivan · « **Reply #190 on:** November 18, 2009, 05:32:19 PM »

I'm not doubting your abilities to pull in the cash, but just for your FYI you'll need a couple of grand per month for meds for the rest of your life, which at this point is expected to be around 25 years.

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #191 on:** November 18, 2009, 06:22:02 PM »

$600000 over the course of my entire life, assuming I don't die of something else first.

But the point is that my chances of getting the disease are hovering somewhere around zero, singe I don't regularly have sex, don't do drugs, and don't need drug transfusions.

ivan · « **Reply #192 on:** November 18, 2009, 07:26:35 PM »

You're forgetting Xolik's Soup Spoon of Doom.

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #193 on:** November 18, 2009, 07:28:17 PM »

in that case, i'm probably screwed.

ivan · « **Reply #194 on:** November 18, 2009, 07:43:42 PM »

And I don't even want to talk about the Fork of Fate.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #195 on:** November 18, 2009, 08:12:35 PM »

Or the chopsticks of otherwise not specified here.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #196 on:** November 18, 2009, 08:27:56 PM »

Or the Spork of Destiny.

Clear_Runway · « **Reply #197 on:** November 18, 2009, 08:59:03 PM »

Quote from: ivan on November 18, 2009, 07:43:42 PM

And I don't even want to talk about the Fork of Fate.

what about the Fork of Horripilation?

Novice · « **Reply #198 on:** November 18, 2009, 09:13:00 PM »

The Knork of Inevitability.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #199 on:** November 18, 2009, 10:19:58 PM »

I have one thing to post in this thread. 'Pre-existing condition' is a concept I want to see banished.

Not because I don't want to laugh when kids like Clear_Runway realize they do need insurance but it's too late. But for people like my sister who lapsed for two months on her insurance and when she renewed they said they wouldn't pay for anything related to her condition because she had manage two months on her own, even though she hadn't sought any sort of the treatment for those two months and was in agony. Assholes.

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