Because certifications of results are not instantaneous, especially when it’s a relatively close vote and they have to make sure all provisional or absentee ballots are counted. Before the election, the state said it would be between the 22nd and the 28th.
Now it looks like General Beauregard is indeed actually asking federal prosecutors in the DoJ to investigate the Uranium One (fake) scandal.
Whether they actually bring a prosecution or not isn’t the point; it’s the idea that a sitting president and his AG would actually go through with a criminal investigation ostensibly for no other reason than to stop a legitimate law enforcement into his own alleged wrongdoing.
It occurs to me that any reasonably popular mass-media character who expressed devotion to a companion half so frequently or half so fulsomely as this would inspire reams of slash fanfiction.
I don’t recommend the strategy of going without insurance and then relying on the ER to treat you for free if you face a medical emergency.
My niece’s fiancé is a resident in orthopedic surgery. Here’s how he says it works.
Suppose you are in a horrible accident that mangles your leg. They can do a simple amputation or a long, involved surgery that will save your leg and allow you (after extensive therapy) to regain full use of the limb. Your chances of surviving either surgery are the same.
It doesn’t matter how old you are, how many people depend on you, or whether you’ll be unable to work as an amputee. There’s only one criterion to determine which surgery you get: Are you insured?
That’s exactly what happened to me. Since i was unconscious, I had no way of providing insurance information. The officer who notified my wife had my wallet and other stuff with him so I had no insurance card on me at the hospital. By the time my wife reached the hospital, I had been in surgery for a while.
I still have my leg.
Years later, she spilled cooking oil on herself. There was no request for insurance information until the treatment was complete.
This does not comport with my experience of ERs. In my experience, ER treatments are not insurance dependent. (My first husband was uninsured when we met and regularly received top-quality ER and hospital care that he struggled to but ultimately could not pay.)
The problem (from the patient perspective) comes when the person needs follow-up, non-emergent, non-hospital care.
More from the “break stuff” administration. Looks like they’re gonna try to break the UN.
I could totally see the US de-funding the UN. First of all, Obama liked the UN. Secondly, the right wing conspirocrats have always talked about how one-world government is going to enslave them (read: promote human rights and protest human rights abuses).
It may depend on which hospital you’re taken to. Come to think of it, I believe my niece’s fiancé said this is the policy at Stroger (Cook County hospital). He also works at other hospitals in his rotation. Can you guarantee which hospital you’ll be taken to if you have an accident?
It’s my understanding that the ER is required by law to do what is necessary to save your life. If the amputation saves your life, they are not required by law to do the involved surgery that also saves your leg.
When I was getting my EMT certificate, I spent a day in the ER of Brotman Hospital in Culver City. A guy came in with a bullet in his arm.
DOCTOR: OK, let’s send him over to County.
NURSE: He does have insurance, Doctor.
DOCTOR: Oh! Well I guess we can treat him here.
(Incidentally, the guy with the bullet in his arm, who was just sitting there in the car when it happened, was Black and dressed like an office worker.)