DUmmies Discuss Self-Surgery, ThomWV, And Emergency Surgeon nadin

[GOBUCKS]

You will recall DUmmy Aerows, the abysmally stupid lezbo DUmmy, who played with a wild raccoon until it bit her.

She went to the emergency for rabies treatement, and claimed to come away with a devastating $18K out-of-pocket liability.

There are few things more entertaining than a DUmmy in extreme distress:

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 09:59 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)

Is it just me, or is the fact that people do surgery at home a symptom of a health care system that no longer serves the patients, and only the administrators and owners of hospitals?

Google surgery at home, self-surgery and other topics. There are a plethora of them. Some are for goofy topics like plastic surgery, but many of them are for sewing up an injury.

If we have to do this at home because health care is too expensive, what exactly are we paying for when we get hospital treatment?

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?action=post;board=10.0

Response to Aerows (Original post)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:05 PM
Demo_Chris (5,586 posts)
1. We voted for something better, but we were sold out.

Response to Whisp (Reply #2)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:09 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
3. You are Canadian

Sorry Whisp, you are not qualified to comment on this topic. If you get gashed, you go straight to the hospital without a thought. 35% of Americans cannot do that without being financially ruined. Ask me about the $18,000 hospital bill for rabies treatment. I'll be glad to fax it to you so you can see the bullshit we put up with.

Response to Whisp (Reply #15)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:27 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
18. Whisp, no offense

But you are peddling nonsense if you think our health care system has gotten any better. I won't say it has gotten any worse, because it has always sucked ass, but it certainly hasn't improved.

Response to Aerows (Reply #18)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:34 PM
Whisp (22,435 posts)
22. I am very and sincerely sorry for your situation.

But I have heard many, many great stories here from DUers as to how the ACA has greatly improved their finances and their peace of mind when it comes to health coverage.

Response to Agschmid (Reply #43)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 11:50 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
48. Financial ruin or physical ruin

flip a coin.

Response to Aerows (Reply #48)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 11:51 PM
Star Member Agschmid (6,926 posts)
49. Well in one scenario you die, so I know what I'd pick.

As it turns out, DUmmy Aerows prefers to die!!

Response to Agschmid (Reply #59)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 12:47 AM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
66. I would have chosen death

and freeing my family members from being burdened, my nieces could have my assets, my parents all of it.

I'm just a drain of 18,000

I stand with DUmmy Aerows. Her worth is far less than eighteen large.

Mon Mar 17, 2014, 01:04 AM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
71. I wish I would have taken my chances

$18,000 is more than I can handle.

Response to Whisp (Reply #22)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:51 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
31. That will be fantastic

when the payments for financing 18,000 start coming in over something that is relatively minor. I got the care I needed but will pretty much be strangled by bills. Thank heavens I own my own car and can get to work. I have blessings. I will have my car to sleep in if they take my home.

Response to Whisp (Reply #22)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 11:49 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
47. I hope you have $18,000 just lying around

if something happens to you. Something that is minor in the modern world. But I know, that will never happen to you, so there is no reason to be outraged about it.

Response to Aerows (Reply #18)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 12:40 AM
Star Member Walk away (5,607 posts)
62. Right now Obama Care is saving my life so you don't spaek for....

everyone. Let's hope that a new Congress will work towards making it a better law that will help you too.

Mon Mar 17, 2014, 09:31 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
90. You think there are people to help you

when you get overwhelmed with medical bills?

Excuse me while I laugh my ass off.

You can be made of money and then destitute because of one single health problem.

Response to Aerows (Reply #95)
Tue Mar 18, 2014, 12:56 AM
Star Member Walk away (5,607 posts)
97. That is because you have somehow ended up with an $18,000 out of pocket limit...

even though $6,000 is the limit on all of the Exchange policies I have seen.

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:13 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
5. We are absolutely screwed in this country

if we have any need to go to the hospital. I swear on my grave that the next time I ever get injured, the last ****ing thing I will ever do is go to the hospital if I can somehow crawl away from whatever injured or sickened me.

DUmmy Autumn harkens back to DeadDUmmy ThomWV

Response to Aerows (Original post)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:14 PM
Star Member Autumn (15,205 posts)
8. How about adults that pull their own teeth

at home. In this country of ours these things should not happen.

There is nothing that falls outside nutcase nadin's experience:

Response to Aerows (Original post)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:15 PM
nadinbrzezinski (131,371 posts)
9. I have done that, in a hospital

with the patient receiving local anesthesia and proper techniques. Patient usually got a tetanus shot and antibiotics. broad spectrum.

Oh and I was supervised by a doctor. In a disaster I could see it. Otherwise this is nuts.

There are a few things you could do wrong.

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:41 PM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
25. Unfortunately

Many people are educated enough to do it anyway lest they get financially ruined. I know I sure as hell wouldn't have gone to the hospital if I knew I would get mixed up in this insurance mess and be liable for 18,000.

S

un Mar 16, 2014, 11:43 PM
Star Member Agschmid (6,926 posts)

46. To be blunt it would have been better had you avoided the raccoon.

Mon Mar 17, 2014, 01:19 AM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)

Today, they are people preventing themselves from being ruined financially.

"My arm is hanging open, Mama". "Let's get you settled down and sew it back together, because Daddy's insurance may or may not cover it."

[dane]

That was a fun thread that I had bypassed earlier.  Link http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4675658

[delilahmused]

I don't know where these people get their medical care but I've always been able to work out a payment plan with the hospital/doctor, etc. As long as you work with them, make your payments, let them know if a payment will be late or less than the agreed on amount for whatever reason, I've found them to be very reasonable and caring.

Cindie

[obumazombie]

I am getting a strong sense from the DUmmies that health care should be free...to them.

[BlueStateSaint]

I am getting a strong sense from the DUmmies that health care should be free...to them.

Center-of-mass hit.

[Carl]

Aerows,who is the only person in history to receive the 3 week long rabies series in less then a half hour.


On edit,it would seem she visits us.

The original DUmp thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024609915
The thread here at CC about it.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,95059.0.html

Now the "clarification" from the original BS.

Response to Walk away (Reply #97)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 01:19 AM

 Aerows (22,599 posts)
98. Can you talk to my insurance company?

Or the hospital? Because I was in the ER for a total of an hour, my wound site shot up with crap (no anesthesia), a tetanus shot, and then a series that I went to at 3, 7, 14 and 28 days that took like five minutes.

If I wasn't experiencing this, *I* would think I was full of crap.

[hillneck]

Mon Mar 17, 2014, 01:04 AM
Star Member Aerows (22,588 posts)
71. I wish I would have taken my chances

$18,000 is more than I can handle.

Maybe you'll think twice next time about feeding the wild animals.  Then again you're a DUmbass, so I doubt it.   

[ConservativeMobster]

Where does this dummy live that she would pay that amount of money for that little care?  Total BS.

[dane]

I could not tell how old this entry is http://www.rabiesvaccinecost.com/ but it is an article on cost of vaccine after being bitten.

Treatment via ER is higher, amount of vaccine varies w/ body weight (Aerows must have a LOT of body weight to up the cost to $18K) so the cost varies w/ weight.

[BattleHymn]

Treatment via ER is higher, amount of vaccine varies w/ body weight (Aerows must have a LOT of body weight to up the cost to $18K) so the cost varies w/ weight.

In that case, I believe her cost estimate.  Most DUmp females seem to be skeleton thin or morbidly obese.

[RobJohnson]

I don't know where these people get their medical care but I've always been able to work out a payment plan with the hospital/doctor, etc. As long as you work with them, make your payments, let them know if a payment will be late or less than the agreed on amount for whatever reason, I've found them to be very reasonable and caring.

Cindie

Some of these new large medical groups simply practice medicine by balance sheet. I have seen some crazy scenarios in which people were making payments and were still turned over to collections.

When I was transported to Vegas to have my appendix out they wanted $100 cash or credit card when I got up to my room the night before the surgery. I really did not have time to grab my wallet when they were loading me up in the ambulance!!!!  It was all covered at 100% anyways due to past medical issues that year, I had met my out of pocket. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I hereby nominate DUmmy Aerows for the first quarter DUmmy of the year.

Yeah yeah yeah, there are the usual suspects making great runs, but I think crazy rabies infested Aerows deserves a shout-out.

[GOBUCKS]

If anyone really needs surgery, a quick PM to the nutcase could save a ton of money.

Response to Aerows (Original post)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 10:15 PM
nadinbrzezinski (131,371 posts)
9. I have done that, in a hospital

with the patient receiving local anesthesia and proper techniques. Patient usually got a tetanus shot and antibiotics. broad spectrum.

Oh and I was supervised by a doctor.

[BlueStateSaint]

I hereby nominate DUmmy Aerows for the first quarter DUmmy of the year.

Yeah yeah yeah, there are the usual suspects making great runs, but I think crazy rabies infested Aerows deserves a shout-out.

She's definitely deserving of votes.  In the second quarter, even . . .

[Ralph Wiggum]

She's definitely deserving of votes.  In the second quarter, even . . .

Well, you know how the year might flow.  Those who shine early on in the year might flame out later on & be forgotten, BSS.

[BlueStateSaint]

Well, you know how the year might flow.  Those who shine early on in the year might flame out later on & be forgotten, BSS.

Yeah, I know.  I've got a feeling that we haven't seen the end of Aerows.

As for the poor raccoon that bit her, . . .