When my estranged mother died I was in my early to mid twenties, I had little to no money and was couch surfing. The hospital shipped her to the first funeral home that would take her. (Surprise surprise, they owned 3/4 of the ones in town) Dying is crazy expensive and that funeral home threatened to sue me if I did not pay them for services. I didn't know what to tell them except that I was practically homeless and had no money.
This reminds me of those old tales from China or North Korea or Russia, about people getting executed and their family sent the price of the bullet. It's just MUCH MUCH worse.........imagine being compared to the most dystopian dictatorships and found to be worse......
what the actual fuck, people give canada's MAID crap but if you want to save people's lives you have to *pay* for it? as if the recipient isn't also paying and arm and a leg already, the deceased's family get fucked too
No no no, don't tell them there is no assets. They have provide the service first and send the bill, which takes atleast a month and body will be harvested for organs by then.
Very sorry that happened to you. When my mum died most companies were very helpful and the few that weren't, quickly turned around when I said, "She's dead. And died penniless. What do you want from me?"
The only reason this is a thing is if it costs more to keep people alive than let them die. Maybe we should tie life insurance and health insurance together so it costs them more pay out on your death than pay for the procedures to keep you alive.
I already get so much spam that collections for medical bills is a drop in a bucket and have no need for credit anymore, so... I only pay their bills if they seem fairly priced and reasonable for service provided.
I opt in to organ donor programs whenever I renew my DL. If this is a normal thing that my loved ones would need to worry about, I'm gonna opt out next time. :\
The system is making a few companies very wealthy, that's what it was intended to do, and that's what it's doing. Sure, plenty of human beings are suffering become of it, but they're poor, and so they don't count in the USA.
A lot of people make this false assumption that since capitalism is great at finding local optima(it is), that those local optimum are global(they aren't) or that optimal resource usage for productivity is actually optimal ethically(it absolutely isn't). Capitalism will find the most cost-effective way to make a profit in the short-term, it will not necessarily find a sustainable solution and it doesn't even take humanitarian aspects into account at all. That's why regulation is important
I can't wait to die, if only because I'm an organ donor and I have no living relatives, dependents, or otherwise noted individuals in my life that can be hounded for a payment for having kept me alive long enough to harvest the goods. I'm gonna stick some governing body with a bill AND they'll have to foot the cost of cremation. My small, petty "fuck you" to the healthcare system!
It's set up NOT to help citizens receive the medical care they need, NO. It is set up to ENRICH the healthcare system's CEOs and executives who become MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES.
It's not radical to desire your human decency. It's not radical to defend yourself, it is unfortunate to need to kill to defend yourself in a world without human decency.
Society has reached a breaking point, we are now at a point where our discomfort and misery outweigh the lies the elite try to sell us, it's blatant they would leave ALL of us to die if it meant a profit. They should be very scared right now. Last time this happened, we pulled the rich from their homes and burned or executed them. (French Revolution, the very recent Syrian revolution) if misery outweighs the benefits of staying in the system, the general public will destroy the system, always
As long as enough of us have nice cars, a roof over our head, and on-demand streaming, the elite won't be scared. They will edge us right under that breaking point by using FUD.
Outside of a few single vigilantes, absolutely nothing will happen. Revolution needs people who expose themselves and work together, and you burned through all of the willing people this generation when you didn't support the occupy wallstreet and 99% movements. Most of those people still remember how you let them down, and will kindly let you do the first step this time.
Keep in mind they're going to clamp it down HARD, because it affects the higher-ups directly. I just earned a 3-day ban on reddit for saying I'd rather see this be a thing, instead of school shootings. JUST TO CLARIFY, SO I DON'T GET BANNED HERE, BOTH ARE BAD (one is objectively worse though)
I'd rather design a molotov cocktail mortar tube. The problem is figuring out how to make it work without the bottle shattering on launch, and still have it shatter on impact.
Glass is prone to breaking under sudden impact but very strong otherwise. You would need a launcher that uses something like a spring to accelerate it through the tube rather having an instant force like an explosive launcher would use. Hypothetically speaking.
A pneumatic system that ramps up its output would be a good idea, the problem is finding a way to control that pressure output so it doesn't instantly accellerate the bottle faster than it can handle.
Remember, seal the bottle and tie the rag to the neck. If you stuff the rag into the open bottle, you might spill burning fuel on yourself when you throw it.
Aren't you supposed to put foam in it, too? Been a while since I looked it up, but I think it was something like the foam gets melty and sticky and makes the flames stay longer.
No. Molotov Cocktails were designed to be runny to cover tanks as much as possible (and enter it, if possible, although not required). What you're thinking of is "homemade Napalm" (Styrofoam + Gasoline).
Is it a burning sensation, like that if pure disgust could kill you'd lay waste to all of them in an instant through the power of your mind? Yeah, pretty sure that's what that is.
It's the guy who shot the healthcare insurance ceo, he left a bag monopoly money in central park for the cops to find, but it took several days for the cops to find because they suck at their jobs
mrollings53
Leave that debt on the child's estate.
pelon365
"Why was a good man gunned down?!!!!!??"
greggor
They still got a CEO?
EvilFentoozler
When my estranged mother died I was in my early to mid twenties, I had little to no money and was couch surfing. The hospital shipped her to the first funeral home that would take her. (Surprise surprise, they owned 3/4 of the ones in town) Dying is crazy expensive and that funeral home threatened to sue me if I did not pay them for services. I didn't know what to tell them except that I was practically homeless and had no money.
metricman67
And remember: a patient cured is a customer lost!
PlainlyPuzzled
Your health'care' system makes me want to vomit - said the European
reverendbonobo
It makes us want to vomit too, but we don't because they charge extra for that.
Cebrail
This reminds me of those old tales from China or North Korea or Russia, about people getting executed and their family sent the price of the bullet. It's just MUCH MUCH worse.........imagine being compared to the most dystopian dictatorships and found to be worse......
IrishPub
Someone call Luigi.
Fireninja404
what the actual fuck, people give canada's MAID crap but if you want to save people's lives you have to *pay* for it? as if the recipient isn't also paying and arm and a leg already, the deceased's family get fucked too
qtRaven
makeamericasmartagain9000
America is so fucked up. They will squeeze every little penny out of every single living human being. JFC
OnomatopoeicOnanisma
..and the dead, apparently.
Oblok
"Please bill the estate of my child, as they are responsible for this. Also note, the estate of my child has no assets."
hsalonen3000
No no no, don't tell them there is no assets. They have provide the service first and send the bill, which takes atleast a month and body will be harvested for organs by then.
Pats0r
It's the land of the free (=rich)
DeloresKleinfelder
Yeah, I had to pay for my mom to save a few people’s lives.
DeloresKleinfelder
Not to mention the bill my mom got herself in the mail…..for dying…..
OnomatopoeicOnanisma
Very sorry that happened to you. When my mum died most companies were very helpful and the few that weren't, quickly turned around when I said, "She's dead. And died penniless. What do you want from me?"
JackieTreehornProductions
The only reason this is a thing is if it costs more to keep people alive than let them die. Maybe we should tie life insurance and health insurance together so it costs them more pay out on your death than pay for the procedures to keep you alive.
Neferium
Yeup, get them all now.
Opunake
That is fucking hideous. How dystopian does it have to get for Americans to finally demand better? Ffs.....
potatoardvarkhybrid
I still don't understand why Luigi did it - /extreme sarcasm tag.
TheN8
I don't understand why he stopped at one.
potatoardvarkhybrid
once you pop, you can't stop
HellsHegemony
Ffs
MoonMoon89
If you don't pay, do they take the organs away from the recipients and shove them back in the body?
Ryebread91
They call the repo men.
Twrecks123
They send it to collections and ruin your credit for 7 years, all while hounding you with calls about collecting money on your dead kid.
Fairemont
I already get so much spam that collections for medical bills is a drop in a bucket and have no need for credit anymore, so... I only pay their bills if they seem fairly priced and reasonable for service provided.
RichardNunez
I can wait to see the next executive...
BonafideHomicide
Somebody's gotta be able to sue over that...
doobiedoobop
I'll just leave this information here: https://chiefexecutive.net/anthem-inc-ceo-gail-boudreaux-cares-about-people/
NKato
Bitch was with United Healthcare before Brian took over.
orangex753
100% broken.
unluckyandbored
Working as intended.
cepacolusmaximus
working exactly as intended*
nasukkin
I'm sorry, what?
I opt in to organ donor programs whenever I renew my DL. If this is a normal thing that my loved ones would need to worry about, I'm gonna opt out next time. :\
nobleImaginationWrecker
Don't do that.
ididntgetthejobatfruitloops
Please stay on if you can. We need organs. /Transplant recipient
boognish115
Can I write in my will to have the transplant patient pay the cost? It makes no sense to have my family pay.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
You come to see the US healthcare system is working perfectly as designed once you realize that it was never designed to benefit the patient
MilkStoutOnTap
Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets - W. Edwards Deming
allihearisnoise
It doesn't matter to what intent the system was built on but the actual outcomes of it. That is then what the system does
phuzz00
The system is making a few companies very wealthy, that's what it was intended to do, and that's what it's doing. Sure, plenty of human beings are suffering become of it, but they're poor, and so they don't count in the USA.
rusrsdude
So it's not about the bills we get along the way but the bills we have to pay at the end of the day?
potshot
A lot of people make this false assumption that since capitalism is great at finding local optima(it is), that those local optimum are global(they aren't) or that optimal resource usage for productivity is actually optimal ethically(it absolutely isn't). Capitalism will find the most cost-effective way to make a profit in the short-term, it will not necessarily find a sustainable solution and it doesn't even take humanitarian aspects into account at all. That's why regulation is important
potshot
in general, but absolutely critical in ethically loaded scenarios such as healthcare.
volcabsol
I can't wait to die, if only because I'm an organ donor and I have no living relatives, dependents, or otherwise noted individuals in my life that can be hounded for a payment for having kept me alive long enough to harvest the goods. I'm gonna stick some governing body with a bill AND they'll have to foot the cost of cremation. My small, petty "fuck you" to the healthcare system!
Fireninja404
we live in a fucked up system where the most financially responsible way you can die is by being alone
jayman0123
You don't have to die alone, just don't be married and when you go to the hospital list the "guarantor" as yourself
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
The USA is the most fucked-up country in the world for healthcare. Its healthcare system is the laughingstock of the planet.
NotyouGuillermo
Not just healthcare
qtRaven
Not just our healthcare system.
happiesthedgehog
We know :(
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
It's set up NOT to help citizens receive the medical care they need, NO. It is set up to ENRICH the healthcare system's CEOs and executives who become MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES.
ChelVanin
Is this what being radicalized feels like?
sqeaky
It's not radical to desire your human decency. It's not radical to defend yourself, it is unfortunate to need to kill to defend yourself in a world without human decency.
Isiel89
Yes.
2Soon4Baboon
InfocalypseRising
See also: being sane in an insane world
Rovylern
Arkvoodle
Ask yourself that after you've gotten angry enough to blow away a CEO or two.
Targe0
Only if you act on the feelings, otherwise you're just disgusted and enraged. Radicalisation requires action.
mormonbatman
We have cookies.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
Almond flavoured?
DakotaWolf
Society has reached a breaking point, we are now at a point where our discomfort and misery outweigh the lies the elite try to sell us, it's blatant they would leave ALL of us to die if it meant a profit. They should be very scared right now. Last time this happened, we pulled the rich from their homes and burned or executed them. (French Revolution, the very recent Syrian revolution) if misery outweighs the benefits of staying in the system, the general public will destroy the system, always
GermanSausagesAreTheWurst
As long as enough of us have nice cars, a roof over our head, and on-demand streaming, the elite won't be scared. They will edge us right under that breaking point by using FUD.
zagibu
Outside of a few single vigilantes, absolutely nothing will happen. Revolution needs people who expose themselves and work together, and you burned through all of the willing people this generation when you didn't support the occupy wallstreet and 99% movements. Most of those people still remember how you let them down, and will kindly let you do the first step this time.
fnordy
It's what an origin story feels like.
Sprikut
This is what being forcibly radicalized feels like.
MiHaleEsSuHale
So, the typical route?
Sprikut
Lots of people voluntarily Radicalize themselves with things like Religion or Sports.
MiHaleEsSuHale
Which is usually forced on them during childhood
Sprikut
True! Not all Religious/Sports fans are voluntarily radicalized by any means. They're just simple examples of where some people do.
bitemark
Keep in mind they're going to clamp it down HARD, because it affects the higher-ups directly. I just earned a 3-day ban on reddit for saying I'd rather see this be a thing, instead of school shootings. JUST TO CLARIFY, SO I DON'T GET BANNED HERE, BOTH ARE BAD (one is objectively worse though)
SedatedSl0th
Welcome to my world. I am here with open arms.
psugab
Depends, are you considering looking up Molotov cocktail recipes?
volcabsol
Napalm is one of the easiest two-step recipes on the market (and also extremely dangerous so don't fuck around.)
diggetydug
I've never melted styrofoam into gas, but if I did, I definitely wouldn't. /s
Targe0
The process of making it can also be very unhealthy. A lot of fumes get produced you shouldn't be breathing.
Totters
Tell that last part to late-stage capitalism and it's goons called health insurance.
NKato
I'd rather design a molotov cocktail mortar tube. The problem is figuring out how to make it work without the bottle shattering on launch, and still have it shatter on impact.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Build a catapult. I've heard that during World War II they used the leaf springs out of heavy truck tires to build improvised molotov catapults.
zagibu
Just use any potato cannon design. Bottles don't shatter.
MechKelly
Glass is prone to breaking under sudden impact but very strong otherwise. You would need a launcher that uses something like a spring to accelerate it through the tube rather having an instant force like an explosive launcher would use. Hypothetically speaking.
NKato
A pneumatic system that ramps up its output would be a good idea, the problem is finding a way to control that pressure output so it doesn't instantly accellerate the bottle faster than it can handle.
psugab
Sounds like a case for trebuchet.
NKato
Too bulky. You want something that can be compact enough to pack into a car trunk.
PostalHeathen
Remember, seal the bottle and tie the rag to the neck. If you stuff the rag into the open bottle, you might spill burning fuel on yourself when you throw it.
Rovylern
I feel like mason and/or Ball jars might work better than beer bottles…
dffksh
Over 80 years old recipe recommends few storm matches taped to the neck of the bottle. Much safer.
Thajurriesexcuesed
Also, don't use a paper towel or toilet paper. Fingers don't grow back.
theshinobi23
Aren't you supposed to put foam in it, too? Been a while since I looked it up, but I think it was something like the foam gets melty and sticky and makes the flames stay longer.
Valase
No. Molotov Cocktails were designed to be runny to cover tanks as much as possible (and enter it, if possible, although not required).
What you're thinking of is "homemade Napalm" (Styrofoam + Gasoline).
Totters
Don't forget the motor oil! It makes it extra difficult to clean off the front of a building. :)
M4Firefly
im surprised its not 31500
fiveclovers
Yes
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Is it a burning sensation, like that if pure disgust could kill you'd lay waste to all of them in an instant through the power of your mind? Yeah, pretty sure that's what that is.
SavageDrums
For me it was the realization that we have the resources to feed, house, and clothe everyone on the planet, but we don't because it's not profitable.
AllAnusMorissette
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Didn't he wear like a black hoodie though?
LuminoZero
Oh, I love this
Ryebread91
I'll be honest I don't get it.
Fireninja404
It's the guy who shot the healthcare insurance ceo, he left a bag monopoly money in central park for the cops to find, but it took several days for the cops to find because they suck at their jobs
Ryebread91
Knew it was the shooter. First I've heard about Monopoly money.
GuyFromDeathValley
Can we please call him The Adjuster again? Sounds way better than "the guy".
Fireninja404
yeah that does sound way cooler