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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
Is it cold in here?:
Time for a silliness break.
For the next strip, I'd like to see Deathmole find a vocalist, set up in Faye's room, and serenade her with Kool and the Gang:
"Reeeeee-hydraaaation! Let's all rehydrate and have a good time"
FunkyTuba:
Faye wasn't able to buy glasses in one of the early storylines... Marten used his insurance from his old job to get them for her. From that I infer that there is some precedent for there being a system functionally similar to the current US system in QCverse.
However, neither do we see people constantly complaining of being in heavy medical debt. I would guess that "characters incurring crushing medical debt" hasn't been a story Jeph wanted to tell yet, if at all.
Too busy for an archive crawl now... does anyone else remember any references to health care costs or practices?
Method of Madness:
@Cold - Deathmole with a vocalist? We can only suspend our disbelief so far ::)
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 27 Jan 2015, 13:27 ---Emergency rooms are required to treat everyone, regardless of ability to pay. The two horrible catches are that they have no obligation to treat beyond stabilizing the patient, and that they can still bill for the treatment. They won't turn you away, but they will leave you pursued by debt collectors for years.
--- End quote ---
Having dealt with being poor and having to go to the Emergency room several times for various injuries while having no insurance, there are also other things you can look into. I think the thing I qualified for was called LIAA, or something like that, low income something something. Anyway, I paid 0 dollars for my emergency room visits back then, and have never been contacted by a debt collector/have no debt on my record. And this is not for life threatening things either, this was for things like getting stitches, etc, so not just "stabilizing" care. I think if you got admitted it was a bit different though.
Hilariously, I pay more for them now that I'm paying enormous health insurance premiums every month... I would say the biggest health care burden isn't on the poor, but on the lower middle class. People who make too much for any assistance, which is where I am now. Seeing a specialist doctor, WITH insurance, eats into most of my discretionary budget for the month just with my copay. My wife currently needs a surgery but it will cost us about 3k that we don't have. She had a similar surgery when we were pretty broke and it cost us only 500 dollars (everything was covered by medicaid (which I didn't have for my emergency visits, but had gained between then and when she had that surger) except the anesthetist).
Not having insurance at all is life ruining if something happens, but even having insurance in the US is a joke unless its REALLY good insurance.
Natswash:
I was retracked onto the introduction of May via another thread and right after it came this: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2522 (sorry I don't know how to link). Does anyone think this was serious or was it just Faye being Faye?
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