1912: Whip It

[fluxquanta]

Also, how was this Amber Nelson's first show? I thought she was a regular. Maybe I'm just confusing her with other podcasts.

[PsychoLoco]

Originally Posted by fluxquanta

Also, how was this Amber Nelson's first show? I thought she was a regular. Maybe I'm just confusing her with other podcasts.

If you're VIP, she's no stranger. She was on Myq Kaplan's show once and I believe I heard her on Risk.

EDIT: She was also on several Cave Comedy Radio shows.

[fluxquanta]

Originally Posted by PsychoLoco

If you're VIP, she's no stranger. She was on Myq Kaplan's show once and I believe I heard her on Risk.

EDIT: She was also on several Cave Comedy Radio shows.

I'm not VIP (anymore), but I do listen to a lot of CCR shows. I just feel like I've heard her on KATG before.

[tocksin]

Without writing a book, my company pays about $10,000 per year per employee for health insurance. Employees pay about $100 each month (for singles, married is $200, family is $300). So think if you had to pay all of that out of pocket. And that's what they expect you to pay. So it's a bet $10,000 a year that you will get sick. But considering how much it costs for medical care, one bad hospital visit could be well over $10,000.

[Sparrow]

something that cost $10,000

one emergency room visit for a kidney stone that included:
-taking up a bed (fuck me right?)
-pee sample
-one scan
-morphine
-the added pleasure, and separate bill, to see a doctor for a combined total of 5 minutes in two visits over four hours

[littlp]

What is really depressing for me is that if I did not have health insurance, it would be too expensive to keep me alive. It is a fucked up system.

[Lanfear]

Insurance always works so that healthy/young people pay to balance out the older/sick people - it doesn't work otherwise.

And every time you don't give your real name at a hospital or just don't pay the bill that means that the price for the care you received just got charged to another person who can pay or happens to be insured and now prices are higher for everybody.
I completely understand the 'ok but how is that my problem nothing will be fixed if I am the only one playing nice' but it's a everybody suck it up and just do it situation.
I'm not sure I would pay if it is as easy to get out of the bill or the mandatory insurance as you make it seem. To be honest I'm not sure it's gonna work out.

[fluxquanta]

Wouldn't it be nice if, say, everyone paid just a little bit toward health insurance, and then everyone was covered by one plan? And then maybe that one plan didn't artificially inflate the rates for service to make up for the people who "can't pay"? Maybe not have that one plan run by a corporation driven to make ever-higher profits for its executives? Y'know, like every other civilized country in the world? Wouldn't that be nice?

[fluxquanta]

oh shit forgot about the death panels nvm

[Sparrow]

it's very important we live as long as the machines will keep us technically alive. profit is dignity, jesus said.