canada

[Ivve]

So, saying I go to competent doctors that actually want to be successful is being a rich cunt? And that makes you want me dead?

taking the interbutts too seriously. it's not an arguable fact that you've got to have decent money or decent health coverage (which usually comes from making decent money) to go to a better quality of doctor. not being able to recognize that that makes you part of a privileged class is more than a little cunty.

[Ivve]

Ok, no, you're right, you don't sound like an entitled little cunt at all.

god ilu, how can your brain be so right?

[Sera]

As a footnote, cunt is probably my favorite word

[Colenzo]

its a pretty fun word ^O^

[Ivve]

it's definitely up there for me.

[Colenzo]

i couldnt even begin to think of what my favorite word is

[Sera]

Incidentally, now I hope he dies because stupid like that shouldn't be allowed to live.

[Ivve]

to be fair though, i think japan has privatized healthcare, albeit with better regulations than we do.

[Colenzo]

well japanese people eat eachothers shit so that gives them super fast healing/immune systems

[Sera]

Japanese people also have separate subway cars for women during rush hour because women have been raped/molested in crowded subway cars. Just sayin', they might not be the best example for... well, anything

[Ivve]

their model of healthcare yielded better results than ours, but then i honestly think it's really kind of bullshit to compare our cultures. they have morning exercise in the workplace and live on a completely different diet; of course their health care is probably going to come out looking better in the end.

[Sera]

Their jobs also have weight guidelines and if you go over you are put in some sort of weight loss program (and it's required too, or you don't get to keep your job.) So... yeah, not really the same, apples and oranges imo.

[Ivve]

Their jobs also have weight guidelines and if you go over you are put in some sort of weight loss program (and it's required too, or you don't get to keep your job.) So... yeah, not really the same, apples and oranges imo.

tbh i wish something like this would be implemented here. weight loss is preventive care; something our current system does not believe in. did you know we also don't test dudes for HPV (which can cause genital warts and cervical CANCER) because it's deemed "not medically necessary"? i was even told there was no test available to give to men. as a result something like 70-80% of our generation has some form or other of HPV. considering there's now that gardasil vaccine, i am really not surprised. pay for this vaccine, because we're certainly not going to take any other steps to prevent you from getting HPV!

[Colenzo]

their model of healthcare yielded better results than ours, but then i honestly think it's really kind of bullshit to compare our cultures. they have morning exercise in the workplace and live on a completely different diet; of course their health care is probably going to come out looking better in the end.

wow brb moving to japan and losing weight

[Sera]

i got that vaccine btw, cervical cancer runs in my family
shit hurt too, it was like they injected jell-o into my arm, whatever the fuck they inject is thick, it makes a big bubble in your arm

[Ivve]

i didn't. i'd be willing to bet that in 15 years everyone who took the vaccine is dead or psychotic. plus i don't think tricare (military health insurance) covers it; they don't cover pap smears.

[Sera]

Ya I know, I used to have Tricare when I was married to Mr. Douchebag. Tricare kinda sucks, but it's better than nothing. You should ask though if they cover it, they covered more than I thought they did. Though it is kinda funny "lol you're supposed to get one pap smear a year but we're not going to pay for it k? k"

Anyway, I'm already crazy, and if the vaccine doesn't kill me, my family's extensive history of multiple cancers will, so I figured, why the fuck not.

[Blarg]

Your vaginas are sucking all the money out of health care.

[Heian]

Our health care system is currently based off the idea that it is better to treat symptoms rather than cure disease, because how else are you going to make money if you cure things? Oh and Health Education, hell just Education in general is appalling here, unless things change in the next 10~20 years, we are pretty fucked.

[Sera]

Drug companies make more money by alleviating symptoms. Did you guys know that most of Europe has laws about how much drug companies can charge for medications? I used to use the birth control patch. 3 patches = one month's supply. Here without insurance it's upwards of $65.00 a month. When I lived in Italy, I could buy that shit for 8 Euros.

And clearly they're not losing enough money by selling it for 8 Euros to stop actually selling it there -- Europe just doesn't allow them to make a 500% profit off you. It's pretty sickening what our country allows drug companies to pull.