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Let me get this right. Major diseases are the most important reason for health insurance to exist. But in the US, if you get a major disease, you lose your job, then within 18 months your coverage, and then the insurance is gone. Is this correct?
Let me get this right. Major diseases are the most important reason for health insurance to exist. But in the US, if you get a major disease, you lose your job, then within 18 months your coverage, and then the insurance is gone. Is this correct?
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Remember when they said we'd run out of coal in the year 2000? Or that the ice caps would have melted by 2012?
Who are "they"? Hypotheses and projections are constantly refined. But in comparison to estimates on things like coal or climate, the population growth models are almost trivially simple, and while the numbers are adjusted up and down regularly to account for actual data, all data we have show the population growth consistently slowing down. For starters, one of the things that make the population models straightforw…
I feel very sorry for him, one shouldn't need to think about money when he has just (hopefully not) a few months left. Said that, wouldn't it be cheaper for him and his family to move to an European country, and get therapy there? In most europeans countries you just pay a low and flat rate (around 100€ a month) and you can get Cancer treatment or whatever is needed. I really want to help him, but I hate that at the…
> Prepare for / pay for my final arrangments : $20,000 I'm not here to bash, but with so much money problem why do people want to spend so much money on their death? If I die I just want people to get rid of my body in the cheapest way possible. Just burn me or give me to science.
Also, your family and friends might want to see you before science does whatever with you, and that will cost more than any of us would like to think it will. Funerals aren't cheap, and I was told when buying life insurance to expect all funeral expenses (viewings, whatever is done with the body) to easily be $20k.
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Without sounding unfeeling, do we really want to add to the overcrowding and population explosion problem that much? Earth is full. Our population has doubled in the short time I've been alive. Doesn't that scare the shit out of anyone else? Imagine what would happen if you suddenly cured all forms of cancer. People would live even longer. Population would shoot up. Lack of housing, lack of jobs. More pensioners... e…
You have awful situational awareness and empathy skills. This is not the time nor place. Unfortunately, people tried to politely inform you, but you kept at your personal rant. Many of us in the sidelines have survived cancer, have cancer, or have close family dying of cancer. There is a time and place for personal soapboxes. This is not it. Have some compassion.
Point taken though...
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What Capitalism? America is the largest welfare state in history. Total government expenditures are nearly the size of China's GDP. What we have is corporatism, plunder by a combination of bureaucrats + government protected corporations (see: Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, Exxon, Pfizer, etc). I wish we had Capitalism. All we have is an extraordinarily misdirected, poorly run welfare state.
> America is the largest welfare state in history. Welfare for the rich. Naked social darwinism for the poor.
Kind of bizarre seeing someone else's value system which is completely alien to my own. If I was leaving my wife and kids with mortgage and car loan debt, I wouldn't spend $10-20k on a graveyard plot, that's for sure. I don't think I would in any case, I'd just get cremated or whatever the cheapest option is.
$20k actually sounds low to me, last time I looked into a burial situation.
20k for a funeral? Really? Seemed legit until that.
Good grief...the comments on Hacker News never cease to amaze... ...just to give a representative example, last September my Dad died. 1) We had his remains cremated. 2) We got said remains without anything fancier than the cardboard box they came in. 3) We scattered his ashes ourselves as a family without any visitation, funeral ceremony, or anything. No gravestone, no casket, no wake, no ceremony, no officiant. Tot…
20k for a funeral? Really? Seemed legit until that.
Good grief...the comments on Hacker News never cease to amaze... ...just to give a representative example, last September my Dad died. 1) We had his remains cremated. 2) We got said remains without anything fancier than the cardboard box they came in. 3) We scattered his ashes ourselves as a family without any visitation, funeral ceremony, or anything. No gravestone, no casket, no wake, no ceremony, no officiant. Tot…