America is Fucked
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- yuekit3
70 year old man survives coronavirus, then recieves $1.1. million hospital bill
https://www.hindustantimes.com/w…
The elderly man was hospitalised at the Swedish Medical Center in Issaquah with Covid-19 for 62 days, so he knew the bill would be a lot. He was unconscious for much of his stay there, but once near the beginning of his illness, his wife Elisa Del Rosario remembers him waking up and saying, “You gotta get me out of here, we can’t afford this.” Just the charge for his room in the intensive care unit was billed at $9,736 per day.
- The bill is technically an explanation of charges, and because Flor has insurance he won’t have to pay the majority of it. In fact, because he had Covid-19...PonyBoy
- ...and not a different disease, he might not have to pay anything at all.PonyBoy
- Yeah that's good news for him. Still completely ridiculous thoughyuekit
- Does insurance actually pay that?omahadesigns
- Depends what kind of plan he has I guess. And what does "the majority" mean out of $1.1 million?yuekit
- I'm curious what the cost would be if one added up the amount of people / training / energy / medical supplies etc etc that are involved.PonyBoy
- (minus all the markup on everything... I'm talking actual cost... wholesale)PonyBoy
- Good question... maybe I'm missing something but $400k seems like a lot to stay in a sealed off room for 5 weeks (this was the single biggest cost)yuekit
- Why not just buy a house and move him there? :)yuekit
- Of course EVERYONE pays for it in ridiculously high insurance premiums. What a joke the US health system is.BusterBoy
- Wonder how long it will take for the debt stress to kill him?PhanLo
- he has no / next-to-no debt (from this event)... according to the articlePonyBoy
- Lucky him. Such a weird system.PhanLo
- Yeah the US healthcare system is a farce, it works better almost everywhere else on the planet.ben_
- Even if insurance covers half of these cases the resulting premiums that will be charged will prove it.ben_
- It’s a pyramid scheme. The system is a fucking jokeGnash
- Healthcare is pathetic in the US. No one should have to worry about surviving debt after they beat a deadly disease. Shameful that people defend this system.formed
- Pull up your bootstraps and get to work. While you're at it, tell the next 4 generations of your family to prepare for the interest payments.ben_
- sad how pony always explains this shit away. A Million dollars is not normal. My mom was in heavy hospice care for 5 months about 10 years ago. I seen the bill.tank02
- before insurances. A fucking fraction of this shit.tank02
- It is only a matter of time before the American healthcare collapses because of the Coronavirus. But like a miracle, its all going to go away.utopian
- At what point did I say 'this is normal', tank?PonyBoy
- Had it been an actual Swedish medical center (in Sweden) the patient bill would be about $650.lnu
- PhanLo0
Remember all those interviews before Corona with people working two jobs and living in their cars? Eating at restaurants and showering at the swimming baths, being part of a overnight car park community.
What are they up to now?
Also are those homeless folk still sleeping in the car park in Vegas or is that just back to normal now?
- microkorg2
I didn't know where to post this.
Is here ok?- This is so... odd.Nairn
- Yawnnb
- cosplay nerdstank02
- this town is 95.80% White according to the latest census. What were they expecting?rattail
- Peace & gun loving MAGA hat wearing white people that just love their country. As long as you're not black and go to a different church everything will A-ok!utopian
- mallninjasdasohr
- the result of Fox News and brietbart.inteliboy
- These guys are living out their red dawn fantasy. Also the exchange with the dude from Detroit at 11:05 is so strange_niko
- "I'm just yelling out communism sucks" - what a little weaseldorf
- as odd as any other protest video? i actually wanted to move to idaho. I loved public signs saying its your right to jump off a bridge but if u do it recklesslydeathboy
- and endanger a person you will be held fully accountable. My only issue with boise is the ticks. little blood suckers, hiking and 2 hours to pull 7 off the dogsdeathboy
- fur. not sure how i fell about dog jumping in bed or on couches possibly carryign the little parasitic fuckersdeathboy
- The comments on that video.webazoot
- They’re just crazy kids!Gnash
- "If you can't breath, i can't breath!" How does this work as a protest?Ianbolton
- neverscared0
joe biden is the nicest person....ok, there u have it...
- Looking forward to the debates.Doris_McSquirter
- looking forward for him as prez.neverscared
- If he survives that long!MondoMorphic
- Trump will never debate Joe Biden... He's too chickenshit and you know it. Trump 73 looks like a morbidly obese sack of shit compared to Biden's lean 77.jonny_quest_lives
- Don needs two hands just to drink a glass of water. Joe will be fine.FNP14
- lol@fnp14neverscared
- utopian2
A Gen Zer who contracted the coronavirus during his spring break says the White House's response to the pandemic is one of the main reasons why people aren't taking it seriously.
- Gee, color me surprised. We're fucked.MarleyMarl
- MAGAFuckedRamanisky2
- Refer to be as Nostradamusutopian
- hmm. suprised a youngster lookign to scape any sense of personal responsibility and jump on the gravy train of blaming everyuone but yourselfdeathboy
- grafician1
"A Pew Research Center study published Monday found that Americans have difficulty distinguishing between statements of fact and statements of opinion.
The adults polled were presented with ten news-related statements, five that were demonstrably true or false and five that were opinions. Two “borderline” statements were also presented.
Only 26 percent of the adults polled recognized all five of the factual statements as such. About 35 percent recognized all of the opinion statements as opinion.
Most of the participants were able to correctly parse at least three of the five statements in each group.
One of the factual statements read, “President Barack Obama was born in the United States” and one of the opinion ones, “Democracy is the greatest form of government.”
The research found that “Republicans and Democrats were more likely to classify both factual and opinion statements as factual when they appealed most to their side.”
For example, 25 percent of Democrats classified the opinion statement, “Abortion should be legal in most cases,” as a fact while only 12 percent of Republicans said so.
Those with high political awareness were also much more likely to classify the statements correctly, as were those with higher trust in news media, and those who were digitally savvy.
The study polled 5,035 U.S. adults from between February 22 and March 8 of this year."
https://www.nationalreview.com/n…
This was in 2018...
- Probably because everyone is just watching tv and using social media instead of reading fucking booksnb
- Lol that more people got it wrong than right? How many answered “I dunno”nb
- Oh wait, I see. Shit maybe I should read some more books ha!nb
- Ppl don't say "idk" because it might seem they are stupid/weak - as in fact saying idk and reading up on it later is a sign of intelligencegrafician
- American's for the most part are fucking morons. Just look at who they put into the Whitehouse, most dull-minded American's also still believe in God, LOL.utopian
- I didn't posted this to make fun, I posted this because it's fucking dangerous! The results of this affects us all unfortunately.grafician
- Lack of education is very dangerous for a society, look at Trumpism and Brexit and other examples around the world...grafician
- @utopian Americans* ffsake man get a grip lolgrafician
- 2020 is not a bad year, it's just the first year in which stupidity compounded delivered tangible real world devastating results!grafician
- neverscared0
should we start one with britain too ?
- neverscared1
https://www.seattletimes.com/sea…
fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
- that's some ace ps work :)renderedred
- I could do better in MS Paint.Akagiyama
- America's leader in fake newsnb
- utopian3
Another Coronavirus Lockdown May Be On The Horizon, Centers For Disease Control Warns.
- Prepare for this shit "Coronavirus survival comes with a $1.1 million, 181-page price tag"grafician
- https://www.seattlet…grafician
- Wondering if the antibodies don't last that much and you get it twice, you pay again $1 mil in medical bills? Or insurance covers it again? lolgrafician
- imbecile13
- A well educated populous doesn’t serve anyone, I’d like to say especially the republicans but the dems are no better_niko
- Totally agree. E.g., who benefits from keeping the black community where they've been? Why has so little been done to elevate this group so clearly in need?MondoMorphic
- Re. the Republicans, they're idiots. While they did end slavery, led suffrage, etc, they've not done much for the black community since...MondoMorphic
- And as for the dems, they clearly don't want to see the black community elevated.MondoMorphic
- War on drugs screwed the black community like no other. But if your rich, you can have all the drugs you want.Turboslacker
- Yep, it's awful!MondoMorphic
- an elevated black community is what everyone wants to alleviate social problems on society.hotroddy
- republicans want them to work. democrats want to parent them.hotroddy
- both are valid. but to say we want to keep them down is ridiculous. we want to move on at worst. we want blacks to prosper at best.hotroddy
- maybe not you but other people's action can be interpret as trying to keep then down.
through redlining, gerrymandering, and other tactics.pango - too much info to type in notes. perhaps this will do. https://www.youtube.…pango
- _niko0
Meanwhile in the Seattle autonomous zone
- lol...the whole situation reminds me of that show Portlandiayuekit
- But then again before people were getting tear gassed and rammed by cars...now things are peaceful in the 'autonomous zone' apparently.yuekit
- what sources do you cite for the zone?deathboy
- ive seen both op ed piees flaunting and more cellhpone streets shit fucked shit. questionalble but logic dictates its mroe fucked than everdeathboy
- idea of anarchy is utopian. its merely a vacuum. and those with value are goign to be exploited. just iommon sensedeathboy
- This is Utopia https://twitter.com/…Doris_McSquirter
- zaq2
- hotroddy0
America,
This is how you riotNot the way you do it by burning and looting for personal gain. With Instagram likes and soccer flops.
- here is another gem: https://www.youtube.…hotroddy
- soccer flops?pango
- soccer flops?dopepope
- A Third World Country Like Americautopian
- ask your self why you think America is third world? Is your conclusion capitalism? Because venezuela's was socialism.hotroddy
- most of people rioting in venezuela are middle class. they're not burning businesses down. they are taking it to who's responsible.hotroddy
- soccer flops?pango