EPTKidney Stones - Page 7
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feathers
United States236 Posts
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L
Canada4732 Posts
It's like rent, food, car payment, car insurance, or any other expense. Haha, the hits keep on comin'. | ||
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InToTheWannaB
United States4770 Posts
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FirstProbe
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On May 02 2009 14:11 food wrote: If we talking free medicare then it is free no matter what, what's the use of it if you only kept alive but cannot get help otherwise without spending a lot of money. Also it doesn't quite compare to mechanic fixing your car, if medicare is funded through taxation then government is the one paying you money with the patients taxes. Government doesn't have an auto repair tax to pay the mechanic. I wasn't really referring to medicare - to be honest, I'm not really sure what medicare is. I was just talking about some guy walking down the street, collapsing, and being taken to a hospital - that sorta thing. I guess in some sense, insurance is the cheapest way of getting health care, should you need it. Oh, and to make a terrible analogy (and it really is) - you shouldn't buy a car, without buying car insurance. edit: I doubt the Government will be able to fund the level of care that private insurance can provide in the USA, without absurdly high tax rates. | ||
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BalliSLife
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ToSs.Bag
United States201 Posts
as for kidney stones i feel for you bro.........water and walking........ break them up so they pass easier........ good luck! | ||
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MiniRoman
Canada3953 Posts
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Chuiu
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Warrior Madness
Canada3791 Posts
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VegeTerran
Sweden214 Posts
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MiniRoman
Canada3953 Posts
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MagisterMan
Sweden525 Posts
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PadrinO
Canada103 Posts
On May 02 2009 06:32 SuBlue wrote: So, I passed like 3 last night....I took 2 5mg tabs of vicodin 15 minutes into it, and I still passed out from the pain. There was blood, puke and urine all over the place....and it was FUCKING HORRIBLE! That mean one of the possibility I put forth has came up! You actually had quite a stone there, but it broke out into pieces after drinking all that water and now it's cleaning your kidney's up. If you think peeing all those little stone hurts.... tell yourself it's much better then pissing that one stone in one shot. And have it stuck in your dick for 45 minutes because there wasnt enough water to push it out all throughout the canal the first try. And then running back to get more water, have more liquid to piss, and have a 2nd attempt, and rinse & repeat until it finally comes out. | ||
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XoXiDe
United States620 Posts
On May 02 2009 06:32 SuBlue wrote: So, I passed like 3 last night....I took 2 5mg tabs of vicodin 15 minutes into it, and I still passed out from the pain. There was blood, puke and urine all over the place....and it was FUCKING HORRIBLE! wow. | ||
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Warrior Madness
Canada3791 Posts
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fearus
China2164 Posts
1.childbirth 2.passing a kidney stone so... hi 5 for being men!!!!! | ||
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piskooooo
United States351 Posts
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Pieguy314
Canada262 Posts
EDIT: however, there still is a scar here, and its been here for two years now. | ||
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MamiyaOtaru
United States1687 Posts
On May 02 2009 02:41 HeadBangaa wrote: If paying medical insurance puts you in the red, then you are living beyond your means. When you nationalize the health care, you alleviate responsibility from individuals at the cost of poorer service for all. Look at England's system, it's fucked. QFFT. I lived in England for three years when my father, a surgeon, was stationed there. I frequently heard horror stories of the patch jobs they'd have to do on someone who'd been through the NHS. We all had instructions to refuse local service in the event of an accident and get the fuck to the nearest US military hospital. (anecdotes FTL, I know) The free medical care as a military dependant was nice, I see the allure of a nationalized system. But it's not too hard to get some coverage with insurance. And it beats dealing with this: http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=27997 (OHGOD at the source of this article and the political spin put on it, but I'm mostly in it for the waiting time stats) "It's simple. As the market-oriented Fraser Institute in Vancouver, B.C., can tell you, Canada's vaunted "free" government health-care system cannot or deliberately will not provide its 33 million citizens with the nonemergency health care they want and need when they need or want it. Courtesy of the institute, here are some unflattering facts about Canada's sickly system: Number of Canadians on waiting lists for referrals to specialists or for medical services -- 875,000. Average wait from time of referral to treatment by a specialist -- 17.8 weeks. Shortest waiting time -- oncology, 4.9 weeks. Longest waiting times -- orthopedic surgery, 40.3 weeks. Average wait to get an MRI -- 10.3 weeks nationally but 28 weeks in Newfoundland. Average wait time for a surgery considered "elective," like a hip replacement -- four or more months." Holy Shit. 40 weeks wait for orthopedic surgery? That happens to be my father's field, and I know his patients aren't waiting anywhere near that long. IMHO the biggest problem with health care in the states is litigation. | ||
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RubiksCube
Germany259 Posts
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