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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on January 24, 2010, 05:10:12 PM
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DUmmy Husb2Sparkly spins a bouncy lie about Sparkly's job at the strip club. Apparently, the proprietor just unpacked a new pole, and one of the bimbos slipped off due to the shipping cosmoline still on it:
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:38 PM
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"I'm so scared. I have such crappy health insurance" An all too common anecdote .....
Sparkly has several performances today. It was a show they were staging for the first time, hence a final run-through this morning. During the run-through one of the dancers missed a step and injured her calf. At first it was thought to be a sprain or minor pull or some such, but it just got worse and worse. She started to cry.
"Is it from the pain?"
"Not really. It hurts bad and I'm worried about dancing again, but mostly I really scared to go to the doctor. The last time I went for a minor injury it cost me $3,000. I'm so scared. I have such crappy health insurance."
Her SO came and got her. Last word is she's at home, hoping for the best and thinking the worst.
It still hurts pretty bad.
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Not to worry. The customers aren't there to see her calf.
DUmmy paulsby claims to be a police officer, which is likely a lie, but would be consistent with getting "Cadillac" insurance that the jug-eared muslim would like to outlaw:
paulsby (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:42 PM
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1. i think this is totally valid
i am a pretty healthy guy. i'm also a competitive athlete.
in a fraction of a second this year, i devastated my shoulder in a competition. between the costs of MRI, surgery, anesthesia, drugs, physical therapy, massage, etc. i WOULD be out over 40k.
i also had to be off work for 4 months.
my disability insurnace through my work covered my salary (i actually got paid MORE on disability) for the time off, and my medical insurance covered everything. the only costs were about $5 per drug refill
w/o insurance, it would have been a major hardship 40k PLUS about 30k in lost income
all for a split second.
Quantess (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:08 PM
Response to Reply #1
9. You would be S.O.L. if you had no insurance.
One minute I was snowboarding, and in a split second, I suddenly broke a bone in my arm that needed $22,000 of surgery to set properly.
DUmmy Quantess barks up the wrong tree:
Quantess (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:46 PM
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5. Sometimes I wonder what it's like for students who want to play sports but lack insurance.
ACL surgery, for example, costs between $30,000 to $50,000
I was thinking to myself that I would not play team sports (not to mention skiing or snowboarding) unless I had insurance. Sports injuries can be so expensive!
The DUmp hates sports, DUmbass!
DUmmy Cleita shuts down Quantess:
Cleita (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:00 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. I once worked for an insurance agency back in the sixties that
specialized in student insurance. Whomever was staging athletic events had to buy insurance to cover anything that might happen including injuries even if it was only for a day. We usually had to go through Lloyd's of London for insurance coverage for those types of events. Any way, by law, they are supposed to be covered.
Cleita (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:57 PM
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6. Aren't the show's producers supposed to have some kind of worker's
comp for that kind of thing?
Uh, DUmmy Cleita, sorry, but most illegal cathouses do not pay workers' comp.
Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:16 PM
Response to Reply #6
13. Such is the life of the artist.
While considered a "professional company" the dancers have to assume all their own liabilities.
Hence the mandatory condom policy.
The hateful, drug-addled ex-nurse Warpy gets at least one thing right:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:09 PM
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10. Sometimes I think no insurance is better than shit insurance.
The bloodbath in November will be a repeat of 1994.
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I recently broke my ankle. Total cost was less than $1200.
Zero bong.
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I recently broke my ankle. Total cost was less than $1200.
Zero bong.
I just had ankle surgery. I went to one regular doctor appointment ($10), 4 specialist appointments ($20 a piece), and the surgery cost me $200. So, $290 total over about 4 months. However, I'm guessing I may have one of those Cadillac plans that would be taxed under Obamacare.
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What the fu.....dge?
The primitives are apparently operating under the delusion that the mid-term elections will be a bloodbath for those opposed to health care fantasies.
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I recently broke my ankle. Total cost was less than $1200.
Zero bong.
Yeah, but you aren't a DUmbass who has a record of skipping out on paying for medical treatment at all the local emegency rooms. I think Stinky's pole dancer buddy is worried that if she takes this in for treatment, the collections department will put two and two together, and next thing you know the strip club is being told to garnish 15% of her meager "earnings".
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Where do the DUmmies get their figures for health care?
Really, I broke my neck, arm and split my lip open all the way through from the lip to the inside of my nose in 2001. I was in a HALO for 2 months and had to have surgery on one of the spots where the screw was pulled out of the front of my head due to an infection. The whole thing was billed for less than $30,000 and the insurance settled for less than that. I can't remember exactly but I'm thinking I was out of pocket less than $3,000. This is including all the MRI's, CAT scan's, X-rays, surgery, HALO, casting of arm, stitching of lip ... the WHOLE thing.
KC
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Where do the DUmmies get their figures for health care?
Really, I broke my neck, arm and split my lip open all the way through from the lip to the inside of my nose in 2001. I was in a HALO for 2 months and had to have surgery on one of the spots where the screw was pulled out of the front of my head due to an infection. The whole thing was billed for less than $30,000 and the insurance settled for less than that. I can't remember exactly but I'm thinking I was out of pocket less than $3,000. This is including all the MRI's, CAT scan's, X-rays, surgery, HALO, casting of arm, stitching of lip ... the WHOLE thing.
KC
Yikes!!!!! Only a Texan could come through that!
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What the fu.....dge?
The primitives are apparently operating under the delusion that the mid-term elections will be a bloodbath for those opposed to health care fantasies.
Wait... wait...how did I miss Sparky dancing at a strip club???
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Wait... wait...how did I miss Sparky dancing at a strip club???
Trust me, you will WANT to miss this....
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Yikes!!!!! Only a Texan could come through that!
LOL I don't know about that. You do what you gotta do. I will tell you this though; A HALO is like a medieval torture device and I don't think I would ever want another one.
The one I had screwed into my skull is now hangin' on my office wall full of pictures of my accident. I tell everyone it is the most expensive picture frame I own.
KC
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:38 PM
Original message
"I'm so scared. I have such crappy health insurance" An all too common anecdote .....
Sparkly has several performances today. It was a show they were staging for the first time, hence a final run-through this morning. During the run-through one of the dancers missed a step and injured her calf. At first it was thought to be a sprain or minor pull or some such, but it just got worse and worse. She started to cry.
"Is it from the pain?"
"Not really. It hurts bad and I'm worried about dancing again, but mostly I really scared to go to the doctor. The last time I went for a minor injury it cost me $3,000. I'm so scared. I have such crappy health insurance."
Her SO came and got her. Last word is she's at home, hoping for the best and thinking the worst.
It still hurts pretty bad.
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I call bull shit...last summer had a "partial rupture of the achillies tendon" in my left leg.
Went to a doctor to make sure it wasn`t a serious thing..payed a minimal co pay under blue cross and collected for the visit under Aflac which I pay for.
Wealthy stinky is trying to be part of the "in" crowd.
Quantess (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:08 PM
Response to Reply #1
9. You would be S.O.L. if you had no insurance.
One minute I was snowboarding, and in a split second, I suddenly broke a bone in my arm that needed $22,000 of surgery to set properly.
Uhmm,don`t do stupid stuff if you are not covered...simple.
Edweird (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:44 PM
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4. Yep. This bait-and-switch toying with people's lives will not end well.
The plan being foisted on us now was clearly and articulately repudiated during the campaign. The vaunted and assured public option was jettisoned. This isn't 'chess', it's a crime.
Define crime please. :whatever:
Warpy (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:09 PM
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10. Sometimes I think no insurance
is better than shit insurance. At least I don't have to jump through hoops to get care. I just live in poverty trying to save enough money to pay for it when I need it.
Just tell her to get checked out ASAP if there's swelling, discoloration, point tenderness, or she can't bear weight on it at all.
Urgent care can save her a few bucks over an ER.
I don't think Congress has quite realized how angry the public is at the abandonment of real insurance reform via a public option. Now the conservative ****s are talking about leaving those of us with pre existing conditions (read: everybody over 45) out in the cold.
The bloodbath in November will be a repeat of 1994.
Just grab some extra pills out of the med cabinet..works every time doesn`t it.
CTyankee (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 05:45 PM
Response to Reply #10
18. you are so right, warpy!
People are wondering what happened to single payer, Medicare expansion toyounger workers, public option. They were in favor of ALL of these options. ALL were whisked off the table before a single hearing on any of them!
Congress just looks worse and worse. If I were in a seat in Congress I would resign before the next election, too, to avoid having my head chopped off...
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
Idiot.
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-24-10 04:46 PM
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5. Sometimes I wonder what it's like for students who want to play sports but lack insurance.
ACL surgery, for example, costs between $30,000 to $50,000
I was thinking to myself that I would not play team sports (not to mention skiing or snowboarding) unless I had insurance. Sports injuries can be so expensive!
This DUmmie obviously never played sports in High School or College...the student/athlete is covered by the school.
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Wait... wait...how did I miss Sparky dancing at a strip club???
It was in all the local papers up here--the police blotter section.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nMZT20sp3A[/youtube]
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I don't think Congress has quite realized how angry the public is at the abandonment of real insurance reform via a public option. Now the conservative ****s are talking about leaving those of us with pre existing conditions (read: everybody over 45) out in the cold.
The bloodbath in November will be a repeat of 1994.
Not in the way you expect. It'll make '94 for like child's play as Dems are thrown out on their asses.
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I hurt my neck bending backwards on a stage with a 5 spot between my teeth. Does that count?