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Next up; We slap a 20% tax on Russian imports to upgrade our nukes and a 20% tax on Canadian stuff to help offset the cost of the extra vowels they use.

 

You didn't know? The black line you cross when you go between the U.S. and Canada is slightly thicker than the one between the U.S. and Mexico.

 

This staggers me, that the above boldfaced sentence would be your chief complaint (valid though it is).

IMO, the sentence should read, "Why such a procedure should cost more than $10,000, let alone $100,000, escapes me. What the fuck is wrong with this country?"

 

Just want to point out that this is only the second-best ginned up fight with Mexico by a U.S. president. James Polk did better.

 

One reason that this fight over health insurance is misplaced. Insurance companies don't set prices (except to try to negotiate them down). They just pay - or don't pay - the bills. It's the hospitals, pharmacy, others driving up prices.

 

Spicer now saying it's not a policy, just an example of what they could do.
PS: When you spend time in a hospital, it's easy to see why prices are high. Medical care is both labor intensive and capital equipment intensive. One reason why other developed countries pay less is that everybody in health care makes less. Try running that past US doctors and nurses.

 

That's more like it.

Was getting a little tired of seeing Trump-Putin references. No way Vlad accepts being second banana.

 

"...this same President gives us a long message, without showing us that, as to the end, he himself has even an imaginary conception. As I have before said, he knows not where he is. He is a bewildered, confounded, and miserably perplexed man. God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscious more painful than all his mental perplexity!" - Abraham Lincoln

 

"Well, we're considering taxing imports from Mexico. ... Nevermind!"

 

It's a jacket, lunkhead.

 

I suspect you had the same injury my wife had the year before ... colles fracture?

Her injury required only one surgery, but it was pretty extensive (about 5 hours in the OR and two days in the hospital recovering). Sticker price for everything (from the initial ER visit through the physical therapy) was about $70,000 ...

Thing is, they can do it a lot cheaper (and of course, the amount of money that actually changed hands was way the hell less than that). The cheaper route -- that is, the one you'd take in a rural area, or the only option you'd have had 30 or 40 years ago -- would likely result in a significant loss of hand function.

So even today you could have gotten your injury taken care of for way the hell less than that. As to whether you'd want to ...