It’s been known for a long time that healthcare delivery is not well-suited for the free market:
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It’s been known for a long time that healthcare delivery is not well-suited for the free market:
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If something’s not suited for the free market, it’s even less suitable for a manipulated/controlled market. It may be that people expect too much from healthcare and put too little into maintaining their own health.
What theory of economics leads you to this conclusion?
If the treatment doesn’t have a positive success rate, and is also very expensive, insurance is still not going to cover all of it if your policy doesn’t cover that type of procedure.
So you end up trying to find insurance that covers it, only to find that you need to come up with 120k because your insurance capped at -insert something here- beforehand. It’s still just as impossible for nearly everyone. 120k might as well be 1.2mil
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Thanks for confirming that I am absolutely doing the right thing for my own personal situation.
That happens with or without Ocare. The only major difference in rare catastrophic cases is w/o Ocare the insurance companies are free to reject you purely on the basis of being sick already, so you foot 100% of the bill at a place that takes cash.
We could all do better in this regard more likely but a lot of instances in health care are out of people’s control. Not sure how tons of people born with certain ailments should have maintained their health better. I wish it was as easy as only obese smokers get sick.
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You could try to become president of the Virgin Islands?
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Maybe!
First thing I’d do is re-name them to boost tourism.
Virgins are about as much fun as baby barf. I’d call them the “Big Badonka-Donk-Titties-and Weed Islands”.
And make @thehebrewhero my secretary of state.
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Well, it wouldn’t be the first time. There are quite a few Pacific islands and even archipelagos named after euphemisms for badonka-donk (“Friendly Islands” being one example) whose names used to denote the fact that there you could get laid for free or for an iron nail at most.
Usually described in official reports as “the natives are of a very friendly disposition”
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All drugs & prositution & gambling of all kinds 100% legal. It will be a utopia no crime cuz everyones too busy getting laid and high. Mandatory state paid breast implants for all women over 18 under a C cup…trust me we make it up on tourism taxs.
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Amsterdam tends to disagree 
See that? Presidential A.F.!
Get the right guy for the job and let him do what he does.
Next we’ll need @loppar for construction development and planning.
I don’t actually know what he does, but I’m pretty sure he’s good at it.
(none of that crazy russian stuff. No onion tops.)
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Yeah I’m good at it. Once worked on a five star hotel that turned out to be a high end brothel. The ceiling mirrors should have been a giveaway.
Ok, how about this?
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No, I meant these-
Although that one looks like fun if the big round thingies could be made to spin. They could be fitted with faceted mirrors, lights, lasers and stuff for some crazy parties.
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Oh that. Yeah, too bland. Gotcha. I’ll fix something more…eye catching.
That has happened in the glory days on the early 1990s. Not in Moscow, but elsewhere.
You need onion domes for the “Forbesy” (Forbses (?)) - oligarchs. Where oligarch go, and they go to places that remind the of home, @thehebrewhero’s high end chicks and blow follow.
No kidding? I was just being ridiculous. I didn’t think anybody would actually do that.
They would have to be bigly engineered. If one of those collapsed into a dance floor it would be known as ''The Onion Booty Disaster".
We don’t want any onion booty disasters.
Nothing is suited for a controlled market.
Can you define “a lot” and “tons of?” Do you know what percentage of Americans’ healthcare costs are related to such individuals?
That’s a statement of personal belief, not an answer.
What the hell is that a abortion sandwich??
Btw been to Amsterdam it was fantastic… Only place ive been where you get head in a night club bathroom do coke and security doesnt bug u