To be sick in the united states without insurance.

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  1. GaijinPunch

    GaijinPunch Lemon Party Organizer and Promoter

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    -Sell drugs
    -Whore ones ass
    -Rob a bank

    These are all open to just about anyone, although do require some skill and even sometimes experience.
     
  2. WolverineDK

    WolverineDK music lover

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    the highest pension is 13000 kroner (2568.46 US $) after tax is paid. and then I pay 5500 kroner in rent for my 69 square metres (742 . 709819 square feet)
    apartment, and then every week, I pay 600 kroner as food money. Then I have 400 kroner for myself the rest of the week, no I am not complaining. But you are forgetting one thing, the buying power of my socalled high pension is not really that much. And I am still paying 43 % in taxes, then I am complaining that my heathcare system is fucking with me.

    Funk Buddy, the cunt of a female doctor who talked to me, said I was a prime candidate to the surgery untill she found out about my psychiatric past. So listen up, I was honest with her. But still I was turned down, and the only reason they gave me in a letter where they said I couldn´t get the operation. Was that they felt even though I had perfectly treaten through the years in the fucked up psychiatric system, they didn´t feel I was psychologically stable enough . Which is just a load of bullshit which pisses me off. So the gastric banding isn´t a gastric bypass, to me the banding is better than a bypass. Since I can hold a diet , and it would have been a big help for me. So instead they just looked at my papers, and thought "oh shit not another one, let us just make him more depressed by turning him down". Those fucking wankers.

    http://www.obesitylapbandsurgery.com/index.html

    Here is an excellent explanatory site about the surgery.
     
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  3. Funk Buddy

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    I see selling drugs as the most likely. Then again, they couldn't run from the cops = fail.

    There are chubby chasers. I doubt the people would bring the high class call girl prices.

    Rob a bank could be the winner.
     
  4. ASSEMbler

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    That would translate to:

    Become a stock trader
    Read tarot cards
    Date rich ugly women
     
  5. Funk Buddy

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    I know what you're talking about, but the problems are going to be similar. You can stretch out the stomach even though they can adjust the band. I guess the vitamins wouldn't be as critical.

    If you can diet, why not try that first. I've been watching my carb intake and walking and that's it and I'm probably down 15 lbs in two months. Sure it's not as fast, but it's a hell of a lot cheaper. Of course it's going to take years for me, but I'm up for it since the results if I don't aren't pretty.
     
  6. WolverineDK

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    The thing is, I have tried all diets. But the main point was. I was getting kicked to the curve as usual . And to me, the banding surgery would have been a kick-starter for the diet. And believe me, I would have stuck to the diet, like a fly on sticky paper.
     
  7. GaijinPunch

    GaijinPunch Lemon Party Organizer and Promoter

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    We have a user here that's into this.
     
  8. Taemos

    Taemos Officer at Arms

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    You seem perfectly stable to me...
     
  9. Taucias

    Taucias Site Supporter 2014,2015

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    I am curious. Do you mean you need an operation to lose weight? If so, why the hell should the public health system pay for it?
     
  10. WolverineDK

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    Because I pay my fucking taxes, that is why !
     
  11. Taemos

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    With money you get through pension?
     
  12. WolverineDK

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    Taemos, never mind . You seem to not understand the whole tax paid healthcare part, think of this every body is paying to one big pool and that pool is called healthcare. And when somebody needs any kind of surgery and etc. then it is paid from that pool. So the money is not from your own pocket alone, it is from all in the society, so I am grateful for having something that help me through, like I was hospitalised the first time I had gotten bacterial pneumonia. And my lungs were burning like fuck, and other insane stuff. But thanks to the "pool", then I was saved. And it didn´t cost me anything. Yeah like ASSEMbler, I have had my fair share of bacterial pneumonia "funtimes" . And I think, if you had 10 % of what you already pay in tax in USA going to one national pool called "healthcare", or some shit like that. Then you could save a lot of more people than you do now. But taxes are more than just healthcare.
     
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    I am horny all the time. Why can't the FBI administer sex to me??
     
  14. WolverineDK

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    Well, we have had cases here , where prostitutes had been doing a service for people on institutions , of course they were paid for it . But again the human rights bill are a great thing. Just sad USA hasn´t signed it. And also if you are an adult and living on a place, it is against the human rights to forbid two adult people becoming lovers. Isn´t that swell ? I could probably tell you other stories which are just as good. If not better, but those I will maybe tell another time.
     
  15. Hawanja

    Hawanja Ancient Deadly Ninja Baby

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    Hospitals don't turn away poor people, huh?

    Tell that to this guy:

    http://articles.latimes.com/2007/feb/09/local/me-dumping9

    If you don't have insurance in the USA, better not get sick.
     
  16. WolverineDK

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    Hawanja , thanks for you comment.
     
  17. Taucias

    Taucias Site Supporter 2014,2015

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    But it is something you can change without surgery. Why should people pay for something that you have inflicted upon yourself?

    Also, perhaps Denmark is different, but the majority of socialized healthcare funding comes from a deduction of your wages, in most countries. If you're not working then you're not paying in to that fund. Taxes taken on retail is usually used elsewhere.
     
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  18. Taemos

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    WDK, I get the general idea of how your healthcare system works. There wasn't really a need to type it all out again, but whatever floats your boat... :katamari:

    I was attempting to point out the irony in you complaining about not getting your (very expensive) surgery for free, even though you don't seem to pay any money out of your own pocket since you said you get pension.

    A. Snow already did a good job of this, though, so there's no point in reiterating.

    This is beautiful.
     
  19. madhatter256

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    Thing is, don't move to LA. California sucks for normal people.

    WDK. A stomach staple is not that critical. Unless you show that you have exhausted all other options, such as exercise and diet, medicine, then maybe the government might approve of it.

    See, that's the thing. That's government healthcare. Big Brother HMO.

    BTW, I'm simply making the connections for the people here as to why you tend to behave like this.
     
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  20. WolverineDK

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    Nope you are wrong about that here, I pay 43 % in taxes. You can call that deduction in my "wage". But here it is not a deduction it is tax. So you don´t know that much. About Denmark. And whether I am fucking working or not, then I still pay my taxes. And so does those who are homeless and getting the lowest of social security. The tax is taken from your cash, before you get the cash. Whether it is your wage or some pension. paid by the state.

    Taemos, just because I get a pension. Then it doesn´t mean I am home free. Since I pay my taxes too. Just like Taucias mentioned and questioned in my quote.

    madhatter256: it was a gastric banding, not an insane stomache staple, or a gastric bypass.
    And yes I have done all those things you have asked me about.

    Well, I am stable as I can be , but my papers says something else. And that is what the doctors look at. Not the person, so in reality it sucks to be me at times.
     
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