I'm impressed that Brasky can still summon outrage at the shittiness of the world at his age, and isn't left a dead-eyed, hollowed out shell of a person like the rest of us. Bravo, fair warrior.
Yo Knight I'm going to need you to shit in the mouths of the incompetent cunts that run Blue Cross Blue Shield
I've called four times to correct this, yet they still deny every initial claim because I'm not my son's primary carrier. But I am. I always have been and they have that on record. Every time I call they quickly acknowledge it and apologize. My son has a new appointment every other week, so this is getting fucking old.
I'm also like 75% sure that they deny everything initially hoping that people like me will not follow up. I hope they all die of AIDS.
The fact that we have private prisons in this country disqualifies us from any discussion about being a "the best nation one earth"
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
WRONG THREAD
Man, this is so good.
If only he'd found time to work a "your mom" joke in there.
When institutions exist simply to make money they’re going to go all out to make money.
Yeah, there are pros and cons with that. For sure.
I'm pretty anti-government running important things where we (as a society) benefit from innovation, but our entire healthcare system needs to be blown up and started from scratch.
It'll never happen, though. Nor could we reach a consensus on what the best system would be.
knight, how are you not dead from your terrible diet?
I'm really not sure it's the healthcare system. I meet tons of doctors and staff who are amazingly competent. However, every point of contact with an Insurance Company is just cancer.
I mean look, anecdotally everyone may fucking hate health insurance companies and want to burn them to the ground, but when you run the data through this advanced bullshit algorithm , they’re actually good and everyone who hates them is wrong. That’s why they have to spend millions upon billions of dollars every year to lobby against universal single payer efforts every year