Please, hold your applause!
So it gets even better - you’ve been “covered in blood” on multiple occasions in ERs in the U.S. while they made you wait for hours to get treated, so that paperwork could be completed.
I don’t see how anyone could possibly be :dubious: about these claims.
In fact, it is entirely likely that the vast majority of Americans have already bled out and are zombies without even realizing it.
Rise up, ye undead, and demand the Canadian Way!
Smart answer! Clearly, you got brains! Which reminds, we’re having a little “pot luck” dinner tonight…
You know, your corpses would keep better up here where the weather is nice and cold. Just sayin’.
It can be arranged.
You get organs and other tidbits, we accept oil from your shale fields in return.
Oi. You’ve got me. I think I’ve only been covered in my own blood in a US ER twice, and once in somebody else’s blood, as I mentioned up thread.
It should have been ER, singular, me, under standard US insurance, ER, singular, other persons blood, standard US insurance, and ER, singular, me, Military Healthcare. The second time I was in an ER with the long explanation and paperwork was when I drove my friend to the ER, so his blood, and he spent his time lying about his blue cross coverage - but he didn’t die, so, no big deal. So…two events under standard insurance, one me, one someone else, me bloody twice and they probably didn’t actually take hours, likely it just felt like it.
The one other time when I personally was gouting blood it would have been a good test, but unfortunately (for the purposes of our study), I was a dependent, and was taken to a military ER, and it was like lightning - as far as I remember. So, as you have mentioned, anecdotal data is isn’t really data - I don’t have controls for these experiences. When the robots bring the time machine, maybe I’ll go rerun these scenarios. As you may be suspecting, I wasn’t very cautious as a young man, and at those times, I was damn glad to have the health care I had. I’m sorry that my sentence structure did not express the chronology and participants of these circumstances as accurately as I might have.
Again, as I’ve mentioned, the only reason I brought this up was to set up a possible explanation about why foreigners care about US health care. As a US citizen, raised in a Red state, I felt I was in a good position to comment. Apparently, since I no longer reside in the States, I no longer get to be considered an Amercan, and instead get lumped in the foreign/fuckoff bin.
However, liiving outside the States does make me reassess how things are done, and I think there are some things we could reasonably change. I suggest that health care and gun control may be worth considering, partly because I live in a place very similar to America, with these differences, and they work, at least they work here.
Just so you don’t think I’m a total pinko, I should point out that I also think the conservative opinion that ‘things aren’t the way they used to be, we all used to pull together, but now look at us’ has a hell of a lot of merit as well. The US is a fantastic country, but in my opinion, as an American, the country could use a weekend to get away from it all and reassess its priorities. I’m sure Canada could too, and you can start a ‘How are you going to fix Canada thread’ if you want.
My minimal contribution in this thread has been to try and point out that the OP’s screed might have some actual points worthy of restating buried within the vitriol. Unfortunately, I also managed to piss you off further, which was not my intention.