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WCDT Strips 3166-3170 (29 February - 4 March 2016)

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bhtooefr:
And the thing is, under human standards in the US... if she's making too much to qualify for Medicaid, but not enough to actually afford healthcare, then she has to pay the penalty for not having healthcare, and she doesn't get healthcare except for emergency healthcare.

And, free emergency healthcare is literally, stabilize an immediately life-threatening condition and kick them out... which for an AI, would mean something that's literally going to destroy the AI drive, because nothing else is actually life-threatening for an AI.

Basically, under the American system, May's expected to just not have her arm and face, even if she were Homo sapiens, if it somehow weren't life threatening. Now, once she loses her job inevitably, then she can get on Medicaid, then she can get healthcare...

sitnspin:
Actually, if she gets fired and doesn't find a new job soon enough she can be declared in violation of her parole and get sent straight back to jail with no trial. The American "justice" system is fucked.

Zebediah:
Prediction: May is going to go to Faye, who agrees to help her and takes her to the fight club purely for the purpose of repair. Bubbles helps out, of course. And Corpse Witch finds them doing it, and says that May can't get repairs in her facility for free - May owes her. And thus the trap is set.

jheartney:

--- Quote from: bhtooefr on 03 Mar 2016, 04:41 ---And, free emergency healthcare is literally, stabilize an immediately life-threatening condition and kick them out... which for an AI, would mean something that's literally going to destroy the AI drive, because nothing else is actually life-threatening for an AI.

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One other point about "just going to the Emergency Room." Aside from the fact that you may well wait a long time to be seen if your situation isn't dire enough, they will only treat you to the point you are stabilized, then kick you out. And it isn't free; you'll be charged for everything they do. Not only that, the rates you'll be charged are the highest, steepest rates possible; people with insurance get "discounts" (i.e. only charged twice as much as the service would cost in a single payer country, as opposed to ten or twenty times as much). But if you have no insurance, they'll come after you for ungodly amounts of money. If you had any assets before you went to the ER, they'll be gone by the time you leave. Bear this in mind next time you hear the right wing talking point about how "people can just go to the Emergency Room."

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) can help here, by giving lower income people access to subsidized (not free, but cheaper) health insurance that they would not otherwise be able to get. But they need to sign up for it beforehand.

osaka:

--- Quote from: Zebediah on 03 Mar 2016, 06:20 ---Prediction: May is going to go to Faye, who agrees to help her and takes her to the fight club purely for the purpose of repair. Bubbles helps out, of course. And Corpse Witch finds them doing it, and says that May can't get repairs in her facility for free - May owes her. And thus the trap is set.

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I doubt it. Even if that were the case, now that Faye and Dora are in good terms she could probably just go to the back alley of CoD.

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It'd be great if somebody in the US started thinking about the concept of society and what it means right

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