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GordoDeCentral

GordoDeCentral

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Seven said:
Oh drug companies are a problem for sure. But I think / hope patent laws might change very fast. These days you've got a lot of biotech companies and many of them are working with DNA or meds that basically use your own immune system. This means that on the hand a lot of meds will be cheaper to produce (eliminating the need for intellectual property) and on the other it will be hard to get a patent for something that is basically human cell material anyway.

The biggest problem I see is the insurance companies. We do a lot of insurance law here and I just don't understand how anyone with any knowledge of subject might believe private healthcare can work. Insurance companies can always choose not to insure. So why would they ever insure a 60 year old cancer survivor? The risk is way too big. So you get people who aren't able to get insurance. And then are the people who did get insurance, but are now finding it difficult to get the insurance company to pay up. Let's say you get a life threatening disease and you need a 200k treatment, but the insurance company refuses to pay. Even if you'd be able to win your legal battle (not all people can afford this either), you might be dead by the time that you do.

The only thing that works is single payer healthcare. If a politician, who has supposedly studied the subject, tells you otherwise, he's lying.
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We do agree on the protected classes
 

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Seven

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GordoDeCentral said:
We do agree on the protected classes
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Yeah, I guess we do. It's just that I think most people underestimate how cynical insurance companies are. Many insurance policies are written in such a way that only lawyers understand what they actually say and sometimes they don't really insure you for anything. And sometimes insurance companies will refuse to pay even when it's blatantly obvious that they should.

I guess you could sort of try to define what a healthcare policy legally has to entail and work from there, but imo that would still be hard.

The biggest issue I have with government in Belgium is that it's all not very transparant and I just know money gets 'lost' along the way.
 
IliveForJuve

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Anyways, employees should get at least 15 days (3 weeks) of vacation a year. And even that can be considered too little.

It's the least the State could do to protect workers.

Do you think it's fair only for white collar workers to get vacation time? Somebody has to work at Burger King or Walmart.
 
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Fr3sh said:
:scared:

Btw yesterday night while we were out one of my friends was pretty drunk she was hugging randoms and yelling happy canada day, she was having a good time, then in comes this fat white girl, my friends reaches out with arms open wide yelling happy Canada day, fat girl stares at her in the face with an angry face and says she doesn't celebrate colonialism. I died of laughter :rofl:
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:lol: That's awesome.

Particularly since the girl must have looked like she swallowed the British East India Company.

Dostoevsky said:
Yeah it's literally full of girls and majority are hot as hell. I can get a date with the stupidest lines now lol. My parents and my closest friends have no idea about it.
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I don't know how you do it, but it's like you have to fight it off with a stick nowadays. :tup:

IliveForJuve said:
People have become so attached to their own oppression that they view it as a badge of honor.
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Absolutely. Or they make it a competition: I'm more oppressed than you.

So all the latinx quadriplegic lesbians can scoff at all the latinx paraplegic lesbians for having it so easy and a life of privilege.

GordoDeCentral said:
It's called calvinism
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Sure is.

Seven said:
My Hawaii report is easy. You should visit. And you should visit several islands. It's difficult to describe, man. There are so many different sights to look at, and it's nothing like European or even American landscapes. But what I liked best was possibly the air. I don't know if the air quality really is better over there (although it would make an awful lot of sense), but it just seems as if there's so much more oxygen there.
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Well on the Big Island Hilo side, I think there's something like 4000 miles before any of the air that circulates there comes in contact with land.

Dostoevsky said:
I realized as much just by looking at the photos. :D
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Photos? Hit me up, Andres! :cool: Is this IG or what?

Seven said:
I'm not sure if you've ever been to Western Europe, but if you haven't been, you're probably in for a bit of a shocker the first time you visit.
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:lol: Last I checked, A was in West Africa. He is not a dude I would presume that hasn't been around much.

lgorTudor said:
Dude, there have to be showers in Bolivia
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Golden ones, thanks to Claudio's maid.
 
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