Letter from the Boss

[Lucky3623]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

Life saving is part of "basic services." I get tossed in an ambulance (might have to pay $40.00 for that trip) and get carted off to a hospital ER, from which point on I wouldn't pay a cent unless I wanted a private or semi-private room for my recuperation.

You?

I guess I just hear the horror stories... about how people will sit in the waiting room for hours, regardless of what ailment they have.

I pay for my health insurance (acutally my work does, nothing out of pocket for me) and on most cases, I pay 20% of services.

[Amorok]

Originally Posted by The Chi

Thankfully soon I will be too in a roundabout way, then I wont have to worry about it, just about what strange experiments the military docs will try to pull without telling me!

Meh, as a civilian dependant you won't have to worry too much, it's us active duty grunts they do stuff to. When they want to give you a shot worry, they're testing something. When you have a rare condition or need a rare procedure worry, you've just become a training event.

[the chi]

Originally Posted by Amorok

Meh, as a civilian dependant you won't have to worry too much, it's us active duty grunts they do stuff to. When they want to give you a shot worry, they're testing something. When you have a rare condition or need a rare procedure worry, you've just become a training event.

Been there done that...I could probably write a book bout the weird shit the AF docs have put me through over the years as a military dependent...being incompetent was a bare minimum expectation! Thankfully, Im healthy. If something happens otherwise, I may just move to Canada!

[Amorok]

That's why we call it the Medical Hobby Shop, kid.

Damn, it's fun to bust on law enforcement because cops get pissed, it's not the same doing this without a military doctor to get their feelings hurt.

[the chi]

Originally Posted by Amorok

That's why we call it the Medical Hobby Shop, kid.

Damn, it's fun to bust on law enforcement because cops get pissed, it's not the same doing this without a military doctor to get their feelings hurt.

They wouldnt understand what we were telling them anyway.

Like:

Me: my head hurts.
Doc: Take off your left shoe.
Me: Why?
Doc: SO we can try to figure out why your head hurts.
Me: The huge LUMP and the concussion noted in my file should help out.
Doc: You have a file??!

I laugh, but shit you not...

[rogue]

Originally Posted by The Chi

They wouldnt understand what we were telling them anyway.

Like:

Me: my head hurts.
Doc: Take off your left shoe.
Me: Why?
Doc: SO we can try to figure out why your head hurts.
Me: The huge LUMP and the concussion noted in my file should help out.
Doc: You have a file??!

I laugh, but shit you not...

Sadly, I've seen the same thing happen at the charity hospital before they merged with LSU. . . .

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Rogue

Sadly, I've seen the same thing happen at the charity hospital before they merged with LSU. . . .

Nothing scares me more than thinking of the last time I was in a New Orleans Hospital ER.

[nhgunnut]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

The story does fail overall.

I imagine that it was written by a low level assistant to the various think tanks that the GOP and conservative organizations uses to flood the internet. It could also very well be a one off writer sending it off from his trailer park.

You may want to look up the word Polemic and check and see if the concept is limiting your world view.

[the chi]

Originally Posted by nhgunnut

You may want to look up the word Polemic and check and see if the concept is limiting your world view.