Just to add an example to that, I haven’t been to the doc in awhile, requested an appointment and got the response that there’s a two-month waiting list. I also need to see a different doc/specialist (have to look up the info to make an appointment), but the last time I made an appointment there it got moved an entire year and eventually canceled.
Isn’t this exactly what they warned us would be the result of socialized medicine?
Meanwhile the people with socialized medicine are laughing at us. 
Not usually laughing, except at politicians ranting about “death panels” and so on. More just staring with our hands over our mouths.
Well, there are death panels. What else can you call US Medicaid work requirements or UK welfare cuts? people die.
Or our present health “system” in general.
Or they can work in other insurance industries that are growing (house, flood, fire, etc), or they can transition to working in the public system instead. Or they can continue to work in the private industry that will continue to exist alongside the public one.
Either way, at the very least, people who are NOT doctors need to stop deciding at a distance what care I need and denying claims for that care because they believe it to be unnecessary, for what the fuck ever reasons - saving money, I guess, because it’s better for me to continue to suffer with endless head aches and continuing to build up antibiotic immunity, so they don’t have to pay out for a claim, even though we’ve paid them tens of thousands dollars over the years.
And we’re lucky that we can try and deal with this, and can probably even pay it if push comes to shove. What about the millions of Americans who are routinely denied care that are living pay check to pay check?
This system is built around making insurance execs richer, not ensuring we all get better health care. I don’t understand why my health and well being should be sacrificed so that the insurance cos can save a couple of bucks…
The death panels are in the insurance cos…
I’m not sure where to file this. I don’t know if this is a good thing or not.
The Freedom Party’s leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was also vice-chancellor, was forced to resign at the weekend after a video sting.
Mr Strache was filmed proposing to offer government contracts to a supposed Russian oligarch’s niece.
The FPÖ threatened a mass resignation earlier on Monday if Interior Minister Herbert Kickl was also forced out.
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Edit for clarity: I am not calling the drenching evil. It’s Tan and crew and their outright calls for murder.
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You can be sure that any organization with “family” in the title is up to no good.
Watch your tongue! We don’t use the f word in this house.
Besides, they have dogs.
“Who’d want to shoot up a garlic festival?”
Sadly, that answer is no longer “heh, nobody.”
It’s shocking how not-shocked I am that this doesn’t shock me.
“Moscow Mitch.” That’s pretty good, I wish I’d coined it.
I wish some investigative types would dig down deep into McTurdle’s finances.
Another day, another shooting…
