Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Oilman:
On an unrelated note, does FAYE talk like Jodie Foster?
questionablydiscontent:
--- Quote from: Marten Reed ---But she'll be okay, right?
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In the short term? No, how could she be?
In the long term... I don't think the doctor is qualified to answer that.
pelotard:
--- Quote from: WareWolf on 27 Jan 2015, 05:32 ---On the subject of benefits (health/unemployment, etc): remember we're in a world with AnthroPCs and huge space stations. Anything is possible.
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I live in a place where "medical bills" are a completely unknown phenomenon (that part of this discussion actually baffled me initially). Faye would probably be able to claim around USD 2,000 per month in unemployment benefits, after a 45-day waiting period (since she was fired, which she couldn't have been here under the circumstances in the comic) and for up to a year or so. After that, she might be on welfare @ USD 500 per month, provided she's actively looking for a job.
Where do I order my AnthroPC?
gprimr1:
One rule for healthcare and ems workers, never say a patient will be ok. A girl I took firefighter 2 with was a flight medic, the one time she told a patient he would be ok, he went into cardiac arrest a few minutes later and died. Faye will make a full recoery from the effects of the alcohol poisoning. That's something a doctor would say, something I might say.
As for the issue of health care, I think it's important to mention. I have brought plenty of people to the hospital who don't have insurance or can't pay. Never, ever, ever, has ANY of those patients been refused life saving or stabalizing medical care. If a patient is serious or critical, they don't even ask for insurance information when we bring them in. We transport to both public and private hospitals.
greekstreek:
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 27 Jan 2015, 07:46 ---As for the issue of health care, I think it's important to mention. I have brought plenty of people to the hospital who don't have insurance or can't pay. Never, ever, ever, has ANY of those patients been refused life saving or stabalizing medical care. If a patient is serious or critical, they don't even ask for insurance information when we bring them in. We transport to both public and private hospitals.
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It is, in fact, illegal for hospitals which accept Medicare to refuse emergency treatment to anyone in the US due to the EMTALA act of 1986. There are a very very small number of hospitals that don't accept Medicare, but I'm sure that local EMTs know about them and just won't transport patients there.
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