Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 13, 2017

Pretty soon you won’t be able to afford to get sick.

Cue the political whine-tasting in the comments section.

It happened here all thanks to the man who won’t be our president anymore in a week.

Try and get sick in Quebec… 24 hrs waiting at the hospital is regular here.

Things other countries have that we could really use:

1. A good health care system

2. Modern railways and trains

3. Democracy

In four years, we may be one of the poor overseas countries.

As opposed to before, when you EMBRACED your lack of immunity?

Goat where you in Chicago or Detroit? Waiting because gun shot victims are treated first?

it is always amazing how some people are so f__in stupid that they are actually against health plan and voted for someone to remove the health plan that exists.

It’s called triage; you are not treated by when you get there, you are treated by the extent of your condition. It depends on the resources and staffing (funding) of the hospital. Being Canadian though, I don’t have to worry about any personal expenses for the treatment.

And it’s about to get much worse, since 20 million people who are now insured will soon have no doctor EXCEPT the Emergency Room.

Which will cost the rest of us MORE.

But the Insurance Companies will make money, and that’s much more important than human life.

Must have visited Chicago. Waiting behind all those gunshot victims to be tended to does take a while.

That’s what urgent care clinics are for. Not everything requires a trip to the emergency room.

We’ll have to watch and see what happens to health care once the current system is, presumably, gutted and, presumably, replaced with something created by those in power. If it goes the way I think it will, I’ll be saying “I told you so” to several people… but without pleasure in being correct. I just wonder from whence cometh the belief that something better is in the works from the crowd that has yet to describe, even vaguely, what “replacement” they have in mind. “Anything is better than what we have now” isn’t much of an argument, being ENTIRELY based of faith. Just because there’s a leak in the attic or mold in the basement doesn’t mean you burn the house down rather than fix those problems, or that the only solution is to buy, sight unseen, a different house. There’s an expression for that. It’s “buying a pig in a poke”. [Meaning that it might or might not be a fine pig, but you can’t tell if it’s concealed in a poke, also known as a bag or a sack.]

Of course, if it wasn’t an emergency, why didn’t goat go to an urgent care center where he’d have gotten help sooner? Emergency rooms are for that… EMERGENCIES

The Republican plan is don’t get sick and if you do get sick die quick. Republican Death Panels will decide which children will die of cancer.

American health care is so great, people are just dying to get in!

I love our healthcare system in the UK. The doctors and nurses do a fantastic job but they are overworked and underpaid.

They have my utmost respect. Not saying they are all perfect though mind you… As much as I want to, I don’t live in a fantasy world.

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The Senate came “as a thief in the night” and changed the US to New Order Care, or NOcare.

I may have a heart attack laughing over the delusional fantasies I am reading in some comments here that health care overseas is so much better, for any level of society, than what is abundantly available here. I have lived for extended periods in Europe, and did have a health emergency of a kind that is normally seen as relatively routine. I nearly died. The nearby highly regarded big hospital did not have a competent surgeon on duty, because it was a Saturday afternoon. At the further-out hospital someone drove me to, the paperwork had to be completed before they wheeled me, from the jeep outside in which I was left waiting while my friend dealt with getting me in, directly into the operatory without any further examination, just relying on what the initial diagnosing physician had said. I was in hospital eleven days for what here is usually no more than a stay of a day or two, largely because of complications caused by the approximately eight-hour delay from diagnosis to surgery….

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xeafI0fMVLI

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USA, welcome to the ranks of third-world countries, especially given that you’re not guaranteed to get drinkable water out of a tap/faucet.

Japan isn’t like that. Most advanced civilisation in the world