Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I finally got a Dagon Breastplate from Kin last night. It was nearly 2am and I was really tired, I opened pool when it died and I was so used to not seeing it or ever expecting it to drop after 600++ kills that I saw the icon and thought "wtf is that?!". Since I do it to sell drops anyway I'd basically forgotten I was even chasing it.

Depends on the provinces wealth and the urgency of the necessity. For example if you need a routine MRI in Manitoba, if a rich province like Alberta might own 10 MRI machines and Manitoba only owns 3, so you will wait a hell of a lot longer for nonurgent testing.

I schedule doctor's appointments in the USA now, mostly for family medicine, routine testing, and endocrinologists, dermatologists and rheumatologist appointments and some of the specialists are all ~3 months out for normal referrals, but if you have urgency and stat priority your family medicine doctor can create a high priority referral insurance will pay more for, to get you in sooner but that has to be medically necessary, insurance wont pay extra for that *** just because you're in a little pain or w/e and your finger hurts etc

when I walked into an ER for healthcare in the poor province I grew up in, you will see a doctor instantly but only if it's life or death. if you walk in with a stubbed toe, you bet your *** that they will make you wait 2-6 hrs at the random hospital you decide to go to etc (Exactly the same treatment I got here in California /shrug)

Hey, stubbing your toe gives Manitobans something to do!
Unless you're in Winnipeg, then it's meth.

I'm kidding, obviously. I just know when sending stuff out for work, it's a rarity we send stuff there.

You already reached your weekly posts limit, Josiahkfc.

Please come back next week

FFVII Ever Crisis x Monster Hunter collab starts this week!

Love the armour designs here. Wish XIV had something more like this than whatever they were thinking with the Rathalos gear.

We have the same problem here, at least where I am, seeing some specialists is anywhere from a 2-6 month wait unless it's deemed an emergency or urgent by your doctor. It's due to staffing reasons, but may be compounded by a larger network buying the hospital chain here and driving a lot of them out.

Some specialists flat out left, we have to drive 2-3 hours to see a pediatric pulmonologist because the office here shut down. It took like 2-3 months out to schedule with them and the next closest one was six months out.

Wait 2-6 months or pay the cost of a mortgage for immediate service.

Any fellow pervs play that Pure Onyx game?

every chance I get, once you go onyx level of hardness you never go back

Josi keeping it wholesome.

They made a half baked 2 that came out a month ago.

dafuq

Never heard of it before, but will check it out now. ( 'w')b

Good morning you who dreamed about your bright future. And also you who just dreamed about your problems.

And also you who had a wet dream. At least you went all the way before waking up

Damn, So you have to pay in the US and the wait time is about as bad as Canada? Hmmm I can get why Americans complain about the system all the time now ;( one would thought if you pay that much money at least it should work more efficiently.

It's not due to lack of money, it's due to mass immigration. Canada has the same problem the UK does, stupid politicians that want to push up pop numbers for GDP growth.

If you let in millions more people every year and do not massively expand the health care system (cause you can't train doctors, pharmacists and dentists fast enough...and the people coming in are not those things in high enough numbers to offset the much greater patient numbers) you're going to quickly reach a fail point.

The UK and Canada are falling apart under the pressure of mass immigration, pharmacists are snowed under and they admit it and will tell you so, waiting times for a GP app are laughable, if you go in to speak to the receptionist to make an appointment you often have to wait 30 minutes behind someone who can't speak english at all and is talking back and fourth over the phone to an NHS funded interpreter, hospital wait times for specialists get longer every year to the point an operable issue can become inoperable while you wait.

If you have anything wrong with you and you live in the UK or Canada you might as well just use the end key booth and not bother.

Is that public health care?

Is the paid health services that expensive?

Regardless of circunstance, doing a queue when technology is evolving to inteligent systems, is only because people like to make the other suffer.

There isnt any reason to have a person be physically be in a place when he/she can do something virtually

But looking again, it isnt that terribly bad for free health service.

The last time I used one here I had to wait like 3h before the doctor could see me, look at me two or three times, touch my infected spine then write antibiotics for me to buy.

I still had to pay 100 coins for it.

I was very amgry because my mother lead me to that. My work pays my health service plan with dozen options where I could book a time and go.

She lied to me because I asked: "is that a paid service?" She said yes because it aas indeed paid, but that, this was the nastiest one she pulled on me (recently at least)

Just curious, why don't you vote these politicians out? It doesn't sound right to support these kind of policy to me.

Personally I find it difficult to understand why people aren't protesting on the streets and burning down government buildings for inefficient health care system, inefficient healthcare is one thing that bothers me a lot more than most other political issues(like woke for example) personally.

How well the system works for you depends on a few factors in my observation. For starters, if you work for a large company then you likely have good insurance and coverage, so you don’t pay much for premiums or out of pocket. The plans available to large orgs are considerably better than those available to individuals. This has a huge effect on how much you pay. The subsidized plans are also better if you fall in lower income brackets, but the highest income for subsidies is still low in some places and your out of pocket expenses could still easily be 25-50% of your income.

It’ll also depend on where you live. We are in a bad situation here because HCA bought our local hospital chain and is driving it into the ground. There are doctors leaving, offices closing, and quality of care has gone way down among other issues. In some cities this is likely less of an issue although it seems to have gotten worse during COVID everywhere. Years ago I could get into a specialist no problem within a few weeks, now many are booked out way in advance. This all started around 2020.

When I was on an employers plan about a decade ago, I barely paid anything. Now I’m on a marketplace plan we pay around $26k/yr for and we have to fight them on a lot of things to get covered and our out of pocket costs are above $30k/yr. When he was born we hit our max for both that year and the next year because he was born in December. The insurance company also ducked paying for things like anesthesia because the doctor wasn’t in network. The hospital was but the doctor wasn’t so it wasn’t covered, which is a big part of why we pay so much out of pocket every year

There aren’t protests because people don’t all fall into the bucket where it is shitty. A large portion of the US likely gets theirs from an employer and doesn’t have as many issues. If you don’t have complications then you may not see these issues. The way insurance plans are structured varies state to state, with some states having higher minimum coverages than others. Some politicians legitimately seem interested in change but like most issues they can run on a platform of fixing stuff to win votes but never do it. It also requires a lot of agreement on how it should work and no one even among parties can agree on that, much less across lines.

Im posting way more than my average because this week is filked with health, safety and environment lectures.

Its interesting, but its way outside my subjects of interest so I cant focus at all

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberals-deal-with-ndp-will-keep-trudeau-minority-in-power-for-3-more-years-1.5829116

In short, the Canadian govt was locked in from 2022 to 2025 with no chance to vote anyone out.

This was shortly after the Liberal govt called an election in the middle of the pandemic in hopes to regain a majority government.

In the UK both parties are pretty much the same, they say different things around elections to throw red meat to the voters but in actions they both support the same things. We have had a right wing government in power for the past 14 years in the UK, and they are not right wing in actions at all. As I say, immigration is at record levels never before seen in history and rising. This is crippling the health care system, there is a massive shortage of housing and many other issues such as a breakdown of social cohesion.

The problem we have is that the system is rigged so that only 1 of two parties can ever win, a right and a left party.

This means the right can only ever vote for the right party, so are locked in voters. So because the right wing party has been in power for 14 years, two things have happened:

First of all they now pander to the center left voters in actions (so are effectively a center left party), cause the right wing voters are locked in due to having nobody else they can effectively vote for and that grows their voter base and keeps the other party out.

Secondly, young left wing politicians who want to get into power and push the things they care about only have one option (cause the right wing party have been in power for 14 years). So pretend to be right wing to get elected, then once in power they vote for and push left wing agendas.

So effectively the right wing party is now left wing.

There is an election coming up and vast numbers of right wing voters are just not going to vote at all, so the actual "left wing" party is going to win in a landslide.

Ironically, the left wing party is actually more to the right than the right wing party pretends to be, on things like immigration (but not by much).

This is what happens when one party is in power too long, it's a complete Sshow.

The insurance system also encourages rampant abuse by companies and providers, and regulation doesn't help much. I am on a specialty medication that would cost nearly $100k/year out of pocket. I have a $400/month marketplace plan with a pretty good list of 'covered' providers and medications, but it only covers ~20% of them. However, once my out of pocket cap ($8000) is paid, the insurance covers 100% of all services.

The company that sells my medication gives me a payment card to use. I use it to pay for my first dose in January, which maxes my out of pocket cap on my policy, then my insurance is on the hook for the other ~90k and all of my other health care throughout the year. This works out great for me, I'm paying ~$4800 a year and getting everything covered with a good selection of services.

But, I can recognize why it shouldn't be allowed. The company can charge whatever they want, because the customer isn't paying any of it and the insurance company has to deal with all of it. Regulations require every policy to have an out of pocket cap, and while insurers have attempted to prevent this sort of system, many states(including mine) have legislated that they need to count payments made on behalf of the patient toward the out of pocket cap.

US hospitals also can't turn away anyone in need, so there's a relatively large expense going to illegals and immigrants who use hospitals for primary care and never pay. Some of the same issues Radial brought up are happening here, even though we don't have a one-payer system.

drug costs are ridiculous. maybe I'm naive and it really does cost so much to research and create these things, but I'm in a similar situation and between me and insurance paying thousands a month.

Drug companies have the same problem as game companies, they are public companies with investors to please.

It's all about the profits. If there was ever an industry that should not be public its the the drug companies..

I believe the complaint is not that its public but that there isn't much care.

Like America it has evolved into a defacto two party system. Only with less difference between the parties.