Insurance?. It is PHARM, Hospitals, doctors, durable good providers and politicians are maintaining a terrible system. This is America. It is about money.. There is no altruism in those organizations. It is money. They are squeezing every penny out of sick people.
The Coronavirus is exploding almost exclusively in red states
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Insurance?. It is PHARM, Hospitals, doctors, durable good providers and politicians are maintaining a terrible system. This is America. It is about money.. There is no altruism in those organizations. It is money. They are squeezing every penny out of sick people.
Was ist deine deutsche Lieblingsband?
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
Es ändert sich oft. Im Moment, Hämatom und Trailerpark.
Kannst du Deutsch sprechen oder benutzt du eine App? Ich frage nur, weil du vorhin formelles Deutsch gesprochen hast.
Big Pharma has issues of its own, but I do find it interesting that you're blaming doctors and hospitals over this. A lot of healthcare workers actually support the idea of developing a NHS. Some pharmaceutical corporations do as well.
A lot of major corporations outside of medicine support the idea because it would make it easier for our labor to compete with labor overseas (since benefits are largely covered by government in these other countries rather than by employers).
However, the sticking point in all this usually just goes back to payment methods. Insurance is the middleman, and they're the only party that would truly lose out with a NHS in place.
Granted, when I say NHS, I don't mean Medicare. I mean something more like France's system. Medicare is pretty dysfunctional and should be replaced by a proper NHS, if we aim to go in the socialization direction.
Es ändert sich oft. Im Moment, Hämatom und Trailerpark.
Kannst du Deutsch sprechen oder benutzt du eine App? Ich frage nur, weil du vorhin formelles Deutsch gesprochen hast.
Google Translate wird immer besser, ist aber noch nicht perfektioniert.
That's cool though. How long have you been fluent?
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Es ändert sich oft. Im Moment, Hämatom und Trailerpark.
Kannst du Deutsch sprechen oder benutzt du eine App? Ich frage nur, weil du vorhin formelles Deutsch gesprochen hast.
you don't speak no german!! quit lying!! j/k
and trump is a trans-racist -- a natural born nonracist who chooses to present himself as racist.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
Google Translate wird immer besser, ist aber noch nicht perfektioniert.
That's cool though. How long have you been fluent?
Since I was a tiny baby thingy.
Fun fact about my family, each one of my grandparents immigrated from a different country. On dad's side, Austria and Italy, and on mom's side, Switzerland and Sweden. So they each had a parent who raised them with English and German, since they figured being bilingual would help them. Then my parents did that for me. Very based. Would have been nice if I could also speak Italian and Swedish, but German is the best, so I'm happy.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
It's true. I don't know if you're joking, but yeah, I agree.
A lot of doctors are getting rich with our system. Hospitals are making tons.
I am on Medicare and it is very good. They save money by keeping you healthy. They send you emails telling you what tests and procedures you should be accessing. The problem is it pays 80 percent. In America a serious illness can cost millions and you will go broke with Medicare. It is the same for insurance too. Most bankruptcies are due to illness costs.
Nice. I'm very much monolingual, although I was fluent in Latin back in high school. It's not a particularly useful language in terms of communication, but it did make my Spanish classes a little easier.
Have you ever been to Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, or Sweden?
You seem to contradict yourself here. First, you're saying they keep you healthy, but then you mention our medical bankruptcies. Medicare doesn't sound so great from a financial perspective.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
No way! That is awesome. How did you get fluent in Latin? Were you raised as a Crusader?
Yeah, Latin isn't that useful, but just knowing a language like that is so cool. You should learn to sing or rap so you can make music in Latin.
I've been to all of them. The alps of Austria and Switzerland are especially beautiful. I totes get why Krampus hangs out there.
No, I just took Latin in high school since everyone kept saying it was good for the SAT, certain aspects of English, and helped with learning other Romance languages. I definitely saw the benefits of it with Spanish, since Spanish is basically a simplified version of Latin. I probably could have become fluent in Spanish if I had taken more classes in it. It seemed rather straightforward.Nice. I'll have to visit there someday.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
And you became fluent through that? That must have been hard since there aren't many people to practice Latin with. Were you really good enough that you could have full conversations in Latin?
Well, it was multiple years of classes. I actually started taking Latin in 7th grade, but I enjoyed it enough that I took more classes in 8th grade and high school. I stopped taking it after 10th grade, but that was partially due to my teacher dying. I really enjoyed his classes, but he ended up getting a very aggressive form of cancer. After visiting him in the hospital shortly before he died, it kind of left a mark on me. I couldn't help but associate that with the language itself.
I have to admit that I spent more time writing Latin than speaking it, but back in high school, I was good enough to speak it. The hardest thing about Latin is that it generally follows a Subject-Object-Verb pattern. So, you don't really know the gist of a sentence until the very end. This is part of what made Cicero a challenging writer to translate, given his extremely long sentences.
StoneByStone
It's OK to Be White
Damn, this story got sadder than I expected.
I've heard about similar cases, people not wanting to speak a language because they associate it with a loved one who taught it to them but then died.
German is kind of like that. It goes Subject-Verb-Object, but if there are two verbs, then the first verb goes to the very end of the sentence. I'd imagine learning German without growing up with it is super hard.
The only pandemic is in the minds of you left winger still mad almost 4 years later you got your asses kicked.
PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
It is not very many of Medicare recipients who declare bankruptcy, but because of the outrageous cost of healthcare in the US, a senior can go bankrupt on the 20 percent uncovered. Medicare is keeping you healthy, but the costs is still dangerous financially. 20 percent of a serious illness can ruin you. Can you understand that 80 percent is covered? That is good, but not all-encompassing.
Medicare is trying to keep you healthy, partly to save healthcare costs. The rest of healthcare in the US is manned by doctors who get paid per procedure. They make more by keeping you coming back for more.
Damn, this story got sadder than I expected.
I've heard about similar cases, people not wanting to speak a language because they associate it with a loved one who taught it to them but then died.
German is kind of like that. It goes Subject-Verb-Object, but if there are two verbs, then the first verb goes to the very end of the sentence. I'd imagine learning German without growing up with it is super hard.
It's all good. This happened over 20 years ago, and I feel bad for saying it, but I even forgot his name after so many years of avoiding thinking about it. I should probably go back and open up one of my yearbooks.
From what I've heard from various speakers of German, it's not that hard for someone who speaks English as a native language. German is, of course, part of the same language family. I'd probably find it easier to learn German now than to learn something like Mandarin Chinese.