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marcus816's avatar

Hey, This is old news! Have y’all not seen the Murderbot documentaries?

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

The longish post above mentions "MRIs at $415 at the top end!".

I have a friend in France who is Irish and has traveled the world in his work and chose France to live in because he loves it there. He had an arm injury and while he could avail himself of the FREE medical care he went to a local private clinic and paid $350 Euros for an MRI.

This isn't the future, it just isn't the present here. Oh, and his unlimited data Orange phone service is $15 Euros a month and has been for over a decade. Government regulation and services, what a curse.

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Mr Mild - BlueVotingBastard💙's avatar

Medicare premiums are going up $21.50/month ($258/year). A basic Blue Cross Advantage plan is (covers part D and other costs) is going up from $23/month to $65/month (an increase of $500/year).

That's over $1,500 for one person. For a married couple it's over $3,000 a year.

That's after paying into Medicare for 30 or 40 years.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I'll be in my medbed.

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Tamra's avatar

Dear gawd, the inferior intellect, pro-second grade government officials crowd, is now running the country. The more stupid, ignorant and white supremacist a person is, the quicker they're appointed to lead the flock, the flock which eats their 💩 like it's the "word of God."

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SethTriggs's avatar

It's just more of the power of the unreconstructed to play with the coverage of reality, and make the maladjusted among them feel special.

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tim gueguen's avatar

Medbeds aren't a joke. There are people who believe they exist and are desperate to find one to cure their chronic or terminal illnesses, or those of someone they know. They're being given false hope and often forgo treatments that exist and work.

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Asphalt-Type Person's avatar

The GOP learned how to dispense false hope from Xtiainity.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. Sci fi staple

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Ryp's avatar

Be careful about staying too long in the Medbed or you will end up with medbedhead.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

You can cure that with a medbed.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

Or a good hair stylist.

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Ryp's avatar

You are kidding yourself if you think socialized medicine would make the slightest dent in health care conspiracy mongering about the healthcare “they” don’t want you to have, mark of the beast medical cards, mind control pharmaceuticals, health care for illegal aliens, forced trans operations, and whatever else the right chooses to freak out about ( along with a portion of the woo woo left that will always suspect the oligarchs are in charge no matter how socialist the government actually becomes).

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Regret's avatar

You speak as if oligarchs and government are not the same social class. If power isn't spread out more, they will be the same people. If power is spread out more, there won't be any more oligarchs, they'll just be relatively harmless citizens.

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Wowdad's avatar

Belief in Medbeds will keep the MAGA faithful quiet as their ACA premiums soar, and the insurance companies save as MAGA avoids actual healthcare and die waiting for their superior Medbed experience.

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Nemo's avatar

You left out United Healthcare's marketing slogan;

Your money or your life. And no guarantees on your life.

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Enter Ranting's avatar

I woke up on the wrong side of the medbed.

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beb's avatar

Republicans are so busy "owning the libs" that they never aak themselves if a thing is possible, or why they have never heard of it before,

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Chris's avatar

Everyone's ignoring the obvious answer: Donny Big Brain watched the Fifth Element, and kept asking everyone "will the big scary planet eat Bruce Willis?" and "is that thing they put Leeloo in real?"

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