Facts are facts.

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I started having double vision (and have a history of seizures). I drove myself to the Urgent Care, who told me to drive to the ER, who let a medical student look at me for fifteen minutes, and then sent me home (I drove back).

At least it was only a few hundred dollars wasted, instead of a few thousand with the ambulance.

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and they won’t tell you the price before you get in.

Won't tell you the price
Once you get to the hospital, every individual you work with bills you separately
The hospital make an effort to bill you before you leave, but that's often not the whole price.
Some of them don't even bill you until you've already paid the initial amount and left. Weeks later you can still get bills for hundreds for stupid crap like someone brought you a regular painkiller in a cup but couldn't be bothered to charge you before you left.

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We're REALLY hoping for a strong leopard season, and much likethe Right, the Left is hoping that the administration hurts the other side more than us, or at the very least both of us enough to make them change their minds. NGL, chances aren't looking good.

Not going to go as far as to advocate Schadenfreude, but when they take a big hit, I do get a little more hopeful.

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You think a hospital would ask for insurance from a dying patient?

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it’s not a hyperbole if some people might think that

Congratulations, you just defined hyperbole as non-existing, since for every proposition you can find someone who believes it.

Just accept that you didn’t get the joke and move on.

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I think the meme could give that impression to someone unfamiliar with U.S. healthcare, yes.

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Oopsie, this ambulance is out of network

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I'm sorry, but I just wanted to say that being charged $16k for emergency medical attention doesn't sound like a mistake on your part.

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My issue issue is about how the title 'facts are facts' might mislead, especially on a topic like healthcare, which is already confusing for a lot of people.

Why not ditch the title, and use slides like:

Slide 1: "Please help me, I'm dying!"
Slide 2: "Of course, but first can you verify your billing address?"

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You really edited 2 of your comments? You know it takes 4 clicks to view them with google time machine?

Ain’t you sad mate?

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Dude, he edits his comments! He gets the joke, he is just butthurt that someone made fun of the us

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Vision problems? History of seizures? We must be neighbors because you just described, what I assume, is afflicting nearly all the drivers in my area

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The meds I’m on control them (although I’ve basically got no information from doctors on why I had them/what could be done to prevent them in the future - medical care here is not great). I’d rather not drive, but there is no public transport where I live and I need to hold down a job.

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I don’t know what you are talking about

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Nah, the motorcycle accident trying to avoid a turtle in the road was my accident. I was only going about 15mph when I dodged it but clipped a curb and went over the handlebars. The hit to the head is why an ambulance can take you against your will. If you are "in your faculties" they cannot force you to go.. but if concussed or such they can take you either way because you may be a danger to yourself or others.

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Trump supporters are gonna get reamed along with the rest of us and spend the whole time convincing themselves that it's a good thing because at least the Democrats are taking it up the ass.

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I seriously wonder if a 30 days earlier event would have changed the outcome of the election.

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if it was allowed to be done legally many American hospitals would absolutely do it.

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Maybe if the Democrats put forward a decent candidate rather than waiting until the last second to replace Biden with Harris. Even Tulsi Gabbard received more votes than Harris in the 2020 primary.

Trump even won the popular vote. 7 million Americans decided that they'd rather deal with him than to vote against him with Harris.

Think about that. And she ran exclusively on abortion and hardly anything else. She changed her accent more times than she changed topics.

Let's see how the next 4 years will play out, despite the drastic exaggerations from liberals. Trump can't do any worse than Biden's pardoning of his son. Oh wait ...