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Question: Should I just go to the freaking Doctor already?  (Voting closed: June 14, 2010, 04:41:05 PM)
No, lingering suffering is amusing. - 4 (26.7%)
Yes, gory medical stuff is amusing. - 6 (40%)
Asherdan's death is even more amusing. - 2 (13.3%)
Why not ask the inter-webs? - 1 (6.7%)
re-cock-u-lous final whacky option! - 2 (13.3%)
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« Reply #15 on: June 05, 2010, 03:50:34 AM »
I'm not sure if Judy's taking Ash to task for taking unnecessary risks with his body, or if he's dissing the entire American healthcare system for being expensive and ineffectual.

Either way, cans.
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« Reply #16 on: June 05, 2010, 07:26:22 AM »
The chance of shenanigans driven by newly pokey bits in your insides, though it may be small, should prompt a visit to the doctor. Better safe than sorry, as others have said. 
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« Reply #17 on: June 05, 2010, 12:27:18 PM »
I might just be keeping my future profession afloat here, but I'd say go, if only to get an x-ray but then I worry about that kind of thing. On the outside chance that you cracked a vertebrae or something, it's worth knowing about. Or as Judy says you might have something that needs a bit of physio and is better dealt with earlier rather than later.
That said, probably just broken ribs and if they were poking into anything you'd probably know about it by now. Definitely go if anything changes though, start running a fever etc.

Oh and Judy gets a can from one socialist commonwealth to another. It took me halfway down the thread to realise you guys were all saying you might not go to the doctor because it would cost money.
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« Reply #18 on: June 06, 2010, 12:05:08 PM »
As someone who doesn't have insurance due to freelancing I say what the fuck are you fencesitting about grab a book and sit in the waiting room you fuck*ng leotard.
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« Reply #19 on: June 06, 2010, 10:55:56 PM »
Quote from: Mr Trout on June 06, 2010, 12:05:08 PM
As someone who doesn't have insurance due to freelancing I say what the fuck are you fencesitting about grab a book and sit in the waiting room you fuck*ng leotard.

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« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2010, 03:24:37 AM »
I listen to the podcast, it has filled the Loveline-shaped hole in my heart.
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« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2010, 05:41:41 PM »
As a Canadian, I basically do not understand why you wouldn't go to a doctor.  But then, I can go to a doctor for no reason whenever I want to for free.
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« Reply #22 on: June 08, 2010, 02:04:18 AM »
Look at us free healthcare lot rubbing it in. Sorry Ash. Do not go to the doctor if you think it's not worth it.
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« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2010, 02:21:44 AM »
Yeah you guys keep having fun titrating cost against being alive and healthy.

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« Reply #24 on: June 08, 2010, 03:20:41 AM »
"Life is a bitch.  Buy bandaids." <----- that is what freedom smells like to me.
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« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2010, 09:26:09 PM »
Quote from: lprkn on June 07, 2010, 03:24:37 AM
I listen to the podcast, it has filled the Loveline-shaped hole in my heart.

My ladyfriend listens to Loveline when she works nights.   She has explained to me that every call boils down to "Who touched you?  Dad?  Uncle?  Cousin?"

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« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2010, 10:26:49 PM »
Quote from: Mr Trout on June 06, 2010, 12:05:08 PM
As someone who doesn't have insurance due to freelancing I say what the fuck are you fencesitting about grab a book and sit in the waiting room you fuck*ng leotard.
These guys were kind of a big deal when I was in NYC: http://www.freelancersunion.org/
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« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2010, 10:36:24 PM »
I just kinda ignored that because not ponying up $90 a month for a basic HMO as part of your monthly planning...sure, OK, yeah, y'know.

BTW, I'm healing fine (with some soreness still) but any Blue Cross plan holders will be glad to know I didn't piss away any resources.

As for you overseas no-cost-to-you-directly-but-not-really-health care folks...y'all are just a good example of not knowing the difference between pain and injury.

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« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2010, 10:55:50 PM »
Are you saying a freelancer can get HMO coverage for $90 a month? If so, things sure have changed since the last time we didn't have employer health coverage a few years ago. It was about ten times that as I recall.
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« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2010, 11:07:50 PM »
Nov. 2007

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Quoted at $3200 annually. $266.67 per month. Averaged at $88.89 per person per month.

Carried it for 6 months. If you actually wanted monthly payments, there was a finance fee that would get you up to $90/mo. per head.
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