TheSanDiegan

-Every clueless dipshit still desperately clinging on to what's left of Trump's microdick of credibility Anyone who doesn't recognize what a ridiculously undiplomatic dick move this was is categorically full of shit. But f*cktards gotta f*cktard, I suppose. He might as well have grabbed her by the Merkhole.

Here's to wishing you a speedy recovery, HM. Here's some thoughts and prayers to help you feel better:

Villa no va.

Before I start, I encourage you to vet the information by the links I have included - I had no idea what these costs would be until I researched them, only knowing they were insanely expensive when compared to dental costs. Anyway, I get your point and mostly agree with it, though I'm not sure car analogies are the best fit, at least not in my instance. To answer the underlined question, I'm sure I've carried $1000 deductibles at one time or another, but our deductible been $500 for as long as I can remember now, and between my wife and I we've had one claim filed in the last 20 years. Two other claims I can recall that fall outside that 20 year window, one was totaled and the other was a $700 claim paid for by the other party's insurance company. The only major mechanical work I've had done within the last two decades was to one of my wife's cars, which did cost us about $1200, but it was analogous to a quadruple bypass, not a root canal. Speaking of heart surgery, I would suggest that insurance more than adequately protects us from the actual cost of healthcare. For instance, bypass surgery starts at $70,000-$200,000 (Link). Prostate probs? Doc find a "little friend" during an exploratory poke? The average cost for prostate surgery runs $35,000, though the cost ranges all the way up to $135,000 depending on your location (Link). Similarly, mastectomies run about $37,000 on average, quickly scaling north of $50,000 if there are complications (Link). However, if the patient wants reconstructive breast surgery, the cheapest route will add somewhere between $10,000-$30,000. And in either case, if the patient requires full chemo treatment, add another $30,000 (Link), bringing the average costs for treatment to $65000 for men, and somewhere between $77,000-$97,000 if surgery and reconstruction is required for both breasts. In fact, if we explore cancer treatment overall, the costs range between $10,000-$30,000 per month - between $120,000-$360,000 per year (Link). This seems particularly relevant, given our abnormally high rate of incidence for cancer - 44th out of 50 nations as per my reply to blu on page 8 (Link). Even a common appendectomy costs $33,000 on average (Link). Brake a leg falling off your ladder? $2,500 may seem reasonable compared to the costs for the various treatments mentioned above, but if it requires surgery to fix, plan on spending $17,000-$35,000 to start (Link). It would seem to me these costs would make the case for insurance, as well as for the need. Returning back to dental care costs and the last line of your post, I agree. Mexico was implied as an option in my post, as were comparably priced dentists within particular ethnic minority communities, a result of free market competition with cross-border medical tourism (though dental care would seem to be more the exception than the rule).

Damn man... I can imagine. Going to go knock on wood now.

We don't have any. I've had a single cap replaced twice in the last 12 years, most recently here $1500. The time before that was in India, by a dentist who's patients include a few of members of India's national cricket team, and it cost me $100, though I'm guessing it would probably cost 3x that now.

Dental work is ridiculously expensive. I think that in part due to the popularity of dental tourism across the border, there are Vietnamese dentists now in certain San Diego communities that are working at rates not too dissimilar from TJ dentists.

Some good stuff in that post blu. Let's explore the issue of cancer incident, mortality, and survival rates a little deeper. Using the WHO's numbers, the following represent the latest cancer mortality rates (deaths per 100K people): Finland 86.05 Sweden 92.24 Switzerland 92.48 Japan 93.78 Israel 94.42 Australia 96.36 Spain 98.06 Norway 99.26 S. Korea 100.28 Germany 100.82 Italy 101.82 Canada 103.21 USA 105.78 France 107.93 UK 109.97 Among 13 Western developed countries, Japan, and S. Korea, we have the 3rd highest death rate from cancer. (Link) And if we go by incidence rate, according to the World Cancer Research Fund, we rank 44th out of 50 (Link) Even if we ignore those other metrics and focus on cancer survival rates alone, the picture is not a cut-and-dry. From the CONCORD study that provided the data, published by the CDC: (Link) While we have the highest survival rates for breast and prostate cancer, and to a lessor degree colon cancer (Germany has effectively the same rate) we lag significantly behind Japan in lung cancer survival rates, and the UK, France, Germany, and Canada all have higher survival rates for childhood leukemia. The differences are marginal - not enough to serve as an indictment of a given nation's healthcare system that is an order of magnitude more cost efficient than our own. Lastly, I'm glad you mentioned the UK and the NHS. In the only survey of its kind conducted, a full 90 percent of respondents said they preferred the UK's NHS over our (pre-ACA) healthcare system: (Link)

These cost inefficiencies are a large part of the reason we spend far more per capita than other developed nation does on healthcare. Every developed nation with single payer or single payer-option systems spends far less per capita than we do. Link

Which is not only cost inefficient, it's unsustainable.

Yeah, I'm not down with having an Echo around. The one that's had me smh for years now is Cox cable's home security package where Cox employees (or some firm subcontracted by Cox) monitor your home through video. It took less than a decade after 9/11 for people to stop giving a shit altogether about their privacy.

You're thinking of Geek Squirt.

You mean the Deep Geek Squad?

I would also be wary of cell repair shops. They do legitimately good work, but also get unfettered access to your phone and have much more to gain and less to lose by collaborating with LE than does a large publicly-traded company.

All one has to do is to show fault with just one component of the 9/11 Commission Report. Towers 1, 2 and 7, as well as AA77, all provide plenty of data for inspection. I would humbly advise proponents of the theory to spend more time focusing on AA77.

And yet this has been referred to as an unprecedented escalation on Capitol Hill by both the chair of the SASC and members of the intelligence community on several occasions - you know, by people in the know. It may not be an "unprecedented assault on democracy." But it was an unprecedented assault on our democracy. What country is on the cover of your passport?

Forewarned is forearmed. Consider this a PSA.

Gonna be? I've been waiting for you to try to lure me under a bridge with free candy for like, five pages now.

BTW, I think it's awesome. You're like an Ouroboros of hate.

If the water's already warm, I jump right in. If it's not, I jump in anyway and pee. To warm it up. Either way, I'm doing you a favor when you think about it.

I would suggest you go f*ck yourself, but at this point, it would just sound rhetorical.