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Well scheduled for surgery on the 17th. Should be in and out the same day after the surgeon reattached the muscles. I don’t have an idea how much will be my own pay, but my wife was a researcher at UT Cancer Center in Houston before retiring. I’m covered under her insurance. Perks of her job. It’s also why I think I got an early call to come in. I’m sure my part will be thousands, but 2 of my four rotator cuff muscles were torn off. Not much choice, but to get them fixed. Then six weeks in a sling type brace and then physical therapy.
 
Well, health care is free here. But, would take months to get anything done.

I still think the $40 is a lot for the 'free' coffee.

Polishing that cowl until it really shines will be excellent--and free--psychio.
 
solomon said:
Well, health care is free here. But, would take months to get anything done.

I still think the $40 is a lot for the 'free' coffee.

Polishing that cowl until it really shines will be excellent--and free--psychio.
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I agree. LoL. I’m a dual citizen of Finland and healthcare there was much simpler when I was working there years ago. Just show your card and so on. The system here in the US is what it is and I’d prefer it to be different, but I don’t expect it to change anytime soon. Buying a ticket to Finland would also be expensive and I doubt I’d get in quickly at this point. So I’ll take whatever comes, if I’m lucky this will set me back thousands hopefully under 5K out of pocket. Don’t know yet and I don’t have much choice.
 
I’ve been going through the pre-operation process and I can say this is a truly complicated medical system. Not to mention it will but a serious dent in my pocket. It sucks, but it’s the system my fellow countrymen have allowed to develop.

Finished all I can on my Thruxton for now. I’m looking into a few refinements to the setup, but doing anything now is out of the question. I’m in the operation preparation phase and need to get ready for the surgery. Thanks y’all.
 
sikatri said:
I’ve been going through the pre-operation process and I can say this is a truly complicated medical system. Not to mention it will but a serious dent in my pocket. It sucks, but it’s the system my fellow countrymen have allowed to develop.
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Don't look at me. Anyone stupid enough to vote for any one of those malevolent jackasses along the way or too complacent to vote has no one to blame but themselves. Notice the biggest fans of it are the ones who've never paid a medical bill in their lives to begin with, nor will they ever. Those being the ever multiplying non-productive. That should tell you something.

The only thing that's really changed in the US is A) Big Insurance and the Medical Industrial Complex has finally got their harlots in DC to offset their freeloader profit loss by charging the productive as a whole, and B) Now quality of care has equalized at the lower end of the quality spectrum. As the fallibly wise but principled Mr. Churchill once said "The Equal Distribution of Misery." All that is going to get A LOT worse here too.

Finland has an excellent single-payer type system because it's a small, homogenous population with an extremely high literacy rate. This criteria met is about the only time "all-encompassing healthcare for the masses" is really effective. Finland knows this. So do a few other select, socially-structured, smaller nations, although this list is steadily dwindling.

I'm right of conservative, but I salute Finland for maintain its uber-strict "Finland for Finland" stratagem concerning this, among other domestic policies. Ireland almost learned the hard way what allowing anyone to play was going to cost them. They pumped the brakes on and even reversed many of their loosening policies, and now continued to operate a stellar single payer system.

In the US, we're pretty much screwed. We'll be as bad as some of the systems in 3rd world countries before too long.
 
Somewhere I’ve heard people get the government they deserve. Perhaps. Still would be nice if it was better. Finland didn’t get there overnight either, it took a long time, it took a civil war and finally an external war to unite the populace. A common goal always helps if everyone is on the same page. A need for education and healthcare were the underpinnings of that unity. I don’t expect things to change here and I have fewer years ahead of me than behind me. I guess the question is are we one people or not and do we have a common goal for our society. If the answer is no, then there’s not much point in being a country.
(PS recognize this last part doesn’t apply to all since this is an international forum. LoL.)
 
I say again- Small, homogenous, educated populations are requisite for European-style distributive systems to truly work, national medical care systems being one of its most prominent characteristics. You pretty much just affirmed this. The US will never have a small, homogenous population and our overall education level not only pales compared to Finland, but is also rapidly worsening. We are not united anymore and we are dumbing down. Other countries in Northern and Western Europe that had successful similar systems going back decades are all in various forms of distinct decline for very similar reasons. I won't name these countries as to potentially offend the offendable and risk starting a geo-political squabble session but a couple of them were pioneers of this socially driven mindset.

As previously stated, I'm right of conservative, but mainly because, I'll go ahead and say it… socialism won't effectively work in America. Not for a very, very long time anyway barring extreme measures, and for my already stated reasons. We're too big, we've become too fractured culturally, and we're not producing a replacement population of even moderate intellectuals. I applaud countries like Finland for their fantastic management and especially, their vigilant upkeep of their distributive systems and I truly wish that level of success, prosperity, and above all- peace, for all countries. But the fact is that in >90% of the world it simply can't thrive. I realize no country isn't without its critical flaws, that "the grass isn't always greener," and "all that glitters isn't gold" but for the odd country that can TRULY make it happen, by all means go for it in a peaceful fashion.

I stress PEACEFUL, not forcible or iron-fisted. Therein lies what has been about the largest obstacle.
 
Perhaps it is socialism if the whole population, including the young, the old, the disabled, the vulnerable, the low paid, those without assets, have access to good medical care. It's just a word, universal health here isn't considered in terms of left/right. It's a matter of caring.

A country with declining educational levels and a fractured society might indeed cause difficulty in providing healthcare for all.

Churchill was an inspiring war leader, a great oratator. Post-war, a plain politician, he didn't enjoy the support of the population and lost the election. His legacy today is the war years, nothing more, people don't go around quoting him.
 
solomon said:
Perhaps it is socialism if the whole population, including the young, the old, the disabled, the vulnerable, the low paid, those without assets, have access to good medical care. It's just a word, universal health here isn't considered in terms of left/right. It's a matter of caring.

A country with declining educational levels and a fractured society might indeed cause difficulty in providing healthcare for all.

Churchill was an inspiring war leader, a great oratator. Post-war, a plain politician, he didn't enjoy the support of the population and lost the election. His legacy today is the war years, nothing more, people don't go around quoting him.
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Agree. I will rest now and hope to be back among you after tomorrow. I’m resting today mostly and getting my last surgery prep done.

It is indeed about caring. Peace to all of y’all and go ride!
 
Over time I’ve had both my rotator cuffs repaired. You won’t be off the bike for long. I’m sure I rode the bike to some of my physio sessions.

My worst off was at only 10 mph. Low side down onto my right shoulder and the brake lever clamped my fingers to the bar so the bike then dragged me until we stopped sliding. Broken collar bone, rib and shoulder blade. Collar bone now has a 25° bend in it and I was off work 10 weeks.
 
Bloodknot said:
Over time I’ve had both my rotator cuffs repaired. You won’t be off the bike for long. I’m sure I rode the bike to some of my physio sessions.

My worst off was at only 10 mph. Low side down onto my right shoulder and the brake lever clamped my fingers to the bar so the bike then dragged me until we stopped sliding. Broken collar bone, rib and shoulder blade. Collar bone now has a 25° bend in it and I was off work 10 weeks.
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Wow! That sounds rough. Glad you mended and that is indeed encouraging! Thanks for sharing your experience. Extremely relevant.
 
More cats less politics please.

We have three cats, the ginger one is not one of them.

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