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Originally posted by JO753:
If you coud find a way to bottle bad luck, youd be in bizness!

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Originally posted by JO753:
If you coud find a way to bottle bad luck, youd be in bizness!

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And people keep wondering WHY I'm so mad all the time!!!

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Hubby went to mow the lawn last night, and there was a flat tire on the mower...At this point it's gotten comical.

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Originally posted by Wishimay:
$1300 bucks for the van fix, had several things leaking, timing cover and some such... But they did a full inspection and said just about everything else looks perfect.

Now, what truck to buy????

Also, found out my aunt has cancer this week. She makes number 9 in three generations...

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WISH: Thank goodness your DD is competent to help out.

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And then I saw karma.

A big rig rear-ended another big rig.

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Originally posted by G:
Yes, good perspective Jo, live each day!

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The E.R. bill totaled out to $21,700, btw. They charged $1000 to walk in the room and give me a $200 Velcro boot that is the wrong size, but they only had a woman's large 8-9 and I'm an 11. Just CRAZY.

This whole thing is so surreal.

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While anecdotes of the absurd, dysfunctional medical system abound these days, it can be difficult to know how best to navigate health care and avoid massive bills. That’s where Rosenthal’s new book comes in: It’s a user’s guide to the American medical system. Rosenthal documents how health care evolved from a patient care system to a multi-trillion-dollar business one perverse incentive at a time — and, importantly, what patients can do to fight back.

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The Fate of Empires describes an age of decadence into which all great societies — Rome, Greece, Persia, Great Britain — descend before they finally fall for good. The decadence, according to the author, Sir John Glubb, is due to a period of wealth and power, selfishness, love of money, and loss of a sense of duty. Does this sound familiar? Societies, it says, typically take over two hundred years to get to the age of decadence. American healthcare has arrived far faster.

The fathers of modern medicine — doctors and scientists like Frederick Banting, who pioneered insulin treatment; Jonas Salk, who discovered the polio vaccine; Albert Starr, who invented a lifesaving artificial heart valve; and Thomas Starzl, who fathered modern organ transplant — helped usher in a new era of scientific healing. They are the reason for medicine’s lofty reputation. But the respect they earned through their noble efforts has been squandered in the past quarter century. The treatments we get and the prices we pay are governed as much by commerce as by humanism or science. The mission of this book is to advocate for a return to a system of affordable, evidence-based, patient-centered care.

No one player created the mess that is the $3 trillion American medical system in 2017. People in every sector of medicine are feeding at the trough: insurers, hospitals, doctors, manufacturers, politicians, regulators, charities, and more. People in sectors that have nothing to do with health — banking, real estate, and tech — have also somehow found a way to extort cash from patients. They all need to change their money-chasing ways.

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SKIM, SCAM, SCUM....name of the game...

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Originally posted by Wishimay:

The local mega hospital here is building Jurassic Park style... turrets (for lack of a better word) and every time I drive past I think "I wonder how much they had to scam people to build THOSE??"

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
That's a great quote! May I use it sometimes?

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Have at it

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I agree. Speaking from this past months experience, if you can't at least roll around, you got nothing. Pissing in a bucket and having people cart that off? Not living...

So....they did a CT scan on my foot. I thought they were gonna say it's okay, so I drove myself there so hubbs can get some sleep...

There's fractures leading to fractures leading to other fractures....


One good fall and literally half my ankle would've broken off. So now they are putting me in a hard cast for a month and he said even then I may require surgery, because one of the pieces is healing slightly lower than where it came from.

THAT was on top of non-stop rainfall over the weekend, and a night of power outages. Our laundry room flooded and I couldn't do shit about it. Now I think we may have to replace the dryer. I was down there bleach mopping from a wheelchair...REALLY glad I caulked the hell out of the baseboards the last few years, I think the one dividing wall will be ok...

The E.R. bill totaled out to $21,700, btw. They charged $1000 to walk in the room and give me a $200 Velcro boot that is the wrong size, but they only had a woman's large 8-9 and I'm an 11. Just CRAZY.

This whole thing is so surreal. I've never even had an accident driving...

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Originally posted by JO753:

Its wutever the market will bear + wutever the 2nd market will bear.

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I'm going to relax all day. Do nothing but watch TV and typeblather in forumz.

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My mom died this morning. Didnt want to say it here in a new topic, so it kinda fits in this wun kuz we were on about the helthcare system. She wuz in the hospital yesterday, then they moved her back to the nursing home next door after getting an infection under control. My sister got to vizit 1 last time.

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