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WCDT: 2882-2886 (26-30 January 2015)
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Natswash on 27 Jan 2015, 17:48 ---Which raises once again the question of why marten was punched when there should be a punching intern
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Punching intern changed rotation?
Budget cut backs meaning no more punching interns?
It's his day off?
Different hospital?
Orkboy:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 27 Jan 2015, 17:53 ---
--- Quote from: Natswash on 27 Jan 2015, 17:48 ---Which raises once again the question of why marten was punched when there should be a punching intern
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Punching intern changed rotation?
Budget cut backs meaning no more punching interns?
It's his day off?
Different hospital?
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Or, Jeph wanted to do a serious gorram comic, and the idea of interns provided for surrogate punching is kinda silly.
Natswash:
--- Quote from: Orkboy on 27 Jan 2015, 17:56 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 27 Jan 2015, 17:53 ---
--- Quote from: Natswash on 27 Jan 2015, 17:48 ---Which raises once again the question of why marten was punched when there should be a punching intern
--- End quote ---
Punching intern changed rotation?
Budget cut backs meaning no more punching interns?
It's his day off?
Different hospital?
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Or, Jeph wanted to do a serious gorram comic, and the idea of interns provided for surrogate punching is kinda silly.
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Hush Orkboy, we are getting sillies out before the angst of the comic
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 27 Jan 2015, 17:53 ---Budget cut backs meaning no more punching interns?
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PAID Internship?! Those don't exist.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Emperor Norton on 27 Jan 2015, 14:56 ---
--- Quote from: Smallest on 27 Jan 2015, 14:48 ---Kept more because it bears repeating, but re: the bolded statement: Monetarily, I absolutely agree. I have always been poor-to-lower middle. However, I'd definitely say lower middle is easier in that you are a lot more able to access your care than a poor person eligible for a lot of resources often is.
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Oh, good lord yes. General Practitioners especially. Do you know how hard it is to find a GP that accepts Medicaid. The only one I could find was this very frighteningly stern black lady who always wore sandals and had the most disturbingly calloused feet, was about a 30 minute drive from my house, and was always super crowded. Also, she just intimidated me.
I was so happy when I could go back to my old doctor after my wife got a job at a hospital and I got insurance through her job.
And if you are in that weird "can't afford insurance, but also can't qualify for Medicaid" section, you get more fun, because the only way to get reliable care is free clinics (which are harder and harder to find) and emergency rooms. IN FACT, one of the reasons Emergency Rooms are so expensive is because of people who can't really afford to go anywhere else, so they go there when they have stuff that is super not an emergency and they can't pay so the hospital has to eat it for the most part.
Actually, it gets worse, the state I'm in has laws about overlapping areas of care, so when the hospital wanted to open up a clinic across the street from the ER, they found out they couldn't even though it would be cheaper all around for everyone because the law said that they couldn't open a clinic in the same area an ER could cover.
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I have insurance that counts as a form of Medicaid, thanks to the ACA. When looking for a primary care physician, my insurers had lists you could access on their websites that tell you who accepts your insurance in your state.
Granted, you should call to verify with the doc's office to make sure the info isn't out of date (happened with my old doc, who wouldn't accept my insurance, and I counted as a new patient since I hadn't actually scheduled an appointment in three years, and all this despite having him since I was 5), but I didn't have too difficult a time. Though I imagine it all depends on what area you're in.
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