Private Industry, Medical Treatment, Good deads

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  1. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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    This is a great example of how people working for the greater good can achieve so much on their own without the need for gov'ts to be involved. We need more like this hero.
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  2. Sokar

    Sokar Yippiekiyay, motherfucker. Deceased Member

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    Does anybody know how to contact POTN?

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  3. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    You know, older acrylic watch crystals yellow over time. I assume they don't have that problem with these?
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  4. frontline

    frontline Hedonistic Glutton Staff Member Moderator

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    Great story. The fact that this happened outside of external help is a bonus

    As for acrylic lenses yellowing? How long does that take and compare it to the lifespan of the patient. Even if they were to yellow before the patient dies better some sight, even if it's tinged, than none.
  5. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    "Good deads", would be a good indie horror flick.
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  6. 14thDoctor

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    Sounds like a form of socialism to me. :chris:
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  7. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    [action=garamet]saves this for the next thread citing "Third World shitholes..."[/action]
  8. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    Then your definition of "socialism" is out of whack.
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  9. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    No, WF's is.

    "From each according to their means" is not a complicated concept. But it's too close to "whatever you do for the least of these" for some people's comfort.
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  10. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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    ^ When govt decides on wealth redistribution that's socialism. When private industry decides to use a sliding scale with their own private money that is not socialism.
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  11. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    No, it's a tax dodge. :P
  12. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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    :lol: At least that's a better theory than the socialism one. :shrug:

    Or it's just a guy on his isn trying to do good in this world. Too bad we can't clone him.
  13. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Plenty of family docs in this country used to make accommodations for their working-class patients before insurance industry made that impossible.
  14. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Doesn't have to be complicated to be insidiously parasitic.
  15. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    And doesn't have to be insidiously parasitic just because you say so.
  16. 14thDoctor

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    Wealth redistribution and lifestyle subsidization are Communism in disguise. :(
  17. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Fuck, what short of wild-west meets Attila the Hun isn't?
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  18. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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    You certainly won't find me in the supporter column of the medical care status quo.
  19. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Nothing! NOTHING!! :ualbert:

    If there aren't actual children crying actual tears at all times, a random selection of peasants must be rounded up and whipped.

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  20. Prufrock

    Prufrock Disturbing the Universe

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    Was this the same guy who was in the documentary "Human Planet"?

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  21. Eightball

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    No thats still socialism. Its still forcing the rich to pay more than the poor simply because they can afford it. Now you can hang with the Occupy gang and fit in, in your own little way.
  22. Captain J

    Captain J 16" Gunner

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    Not forcing. No one is making them go for the surgery. They are choosing to. In a socialist state, the rich have no choice but to pay for the poor.

    Nice try, but you get an F.
  23. Caboose

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